Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: This paper deals with the misplacement of the infinitival markerzu‘to’ in German. While this phenomenon only occurs in certain config-urations in the standard language, such as auxiliary fronting, it is common in dialects and shows quite a high degree of variability. I discuss the misplacement ofzuin Standard German due to auxiliary fronting, as well as other types ofzu-misplacement found in dialects. I propose two parsimonious options for the analysis of the standard language as well as dialect cases, namely, i) precedence rules and ii) a special kind of infixing operation that was first proposed in the framework of Categorial Morphology (Bach 1984, Hoeksema 1985). I show that even though the first approach has its merits, the second one is more advantageous.*
Source: Journal of Germanic Linguistics
Author: Oliver Schallert
Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,980
OpenAlex ID: W3004632475