A dynamic account of verb doubling cleft construction in Chinese

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 69-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaolong Yang ◽  
Yicheng Wu
Keyword(s):  
Verb Doubling

New arguments for verb cluster formation at PF and a right-branching VP

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Salzmann
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Cluster Formation ◽  
General Level ◽  
West Germanic ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
Order Variation ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Important Evidence ◽  
Verb Doubling ◽  
Verbal Complex

This paper provides new evidence that verb cluster formation in West Germanic takes place post-syntactically. Contrary to some previous accounts, I argue that cluster formation involves linearly adjacent morphosyntactic words and not syntactic sister nodes. The empirical evidence is drawn from Swiss German verb doubling constructions where intriguing asymmetries arise between ascending and descending orders. The approach additionally solves the cluster puzzle with extraposition and topicalization, generates all of the crosslinguistically attested six orders in the verbal complex and correctly predicts which orders are penetrable in which positions. On a more general level, the paper provides arguments for a derivational treatment of verb cluster formation and order variation and adduces important evidence in favor of a right-branching VP.

A dynamic account of lian…dou in Chinese verb doubling cleft construction

Lingua ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 24-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaolong Yang ◽  
Yicheng Wu
Keyword(s):  
Verb Doubling

Comments on verb doubling construction in Japanese

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiya Kawai
Keyword(s):  
Final Particle ◽  
Doubling Construction ◽  
Embedded Contexts ◽  
Verb Tense ◽  
Verb Doubling

AbstractThe analysis offered in “Verb doubling construction in Japanese” is critically reviewed. The analysis yield verb doubling construction (VCD) by moving a verb-tense complex (VTC) in T to C, and phonetically realizing both the moved VTC in C and its copy in T. The analysis suffers from various shortcomings. Among them, it relies upon a problematic formulation of Doubly Filled Comp Filter, and the analysis incorrectly predicts the possibility of VDC in embedded contexts. The present study offers a brief outline of a plausible alternative of VDC that involves a phonetically null sentence-final particle (SFP) whose phonetic content is copied from the predicate at the phonetic interface.

V(P)-fronting in Asante Twi and Limbum

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-130
Author(s):  
Johannes Hein
Keyword(s):  
Head Movement ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Verb Phrase ◽  
Reverse Pattern ◽  
Vp Fronting ◽  
Syntactic Properties ◽  
Verb Doubling

When a verb or verb phrase is fronted from a clause lacking any other verbs either a copy of the displaced verb occurs or a dummy verb ‘do’ is inserted. Most languages employ the same strategy for both verb and verb phrase fronting. Here, I present two African languages, Asante Twi and Limbum, where displacement of a single verb results in a verb copy while a full verb phrase triggers do-support when fronted. Both V and VP-fronting show the same syntactic properties within each language. A reverse pattern of verb doubling with VP-fronting but do-support with V-fronting is unattested. I propose an analysis of both strategies in terms of different orders of application between post-syntactic head movement and copy deletion. In interaction with the type of V-movement, remnant VP or head-to-spec movement, this derives all three attested patterns to the exclusion of the unattested one.

Predicate fronting with verb doubling in Krachi: A parallel chains analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-156
Author(s):  
Jason Kandybowicz ◽  
Harold Torrence
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Head Movement ◽  
Left Periphery ◽  
Multiple Copy ◽  
Endangered Language ◽  
Verb Doubling

This article examines verb doubling predicate focus constructions in Krachi, an endangered language of Ghana. Krachi has three such constructions: one where V alone appears in the left periphery; another where VO has been fronted; and a third involving OV inversion in the fronted constituent. Regardless of the fronted expression, the constructions can be interpreted either contrastively or exhaustively. We argue that all three constructions involve the same mechanism – the formation of parallel chains anchored to the same syntactic object. We propose that the parallel chains formed in all three cases are identical, involving one v0-to-T0 head movement chain and one v’-to-Spec, FocP A-bar chain. The reduction of these chains at PF yields the surface doubling of the predicate without appeal to multiple copy spell-out. We propose that minor differences in the PF interpretation of the peripheral v’ copy account for the differences in word order between the three constructions.

scholarly journals Verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng ◽  
Luis Vicente
Keyword(s):  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Verb Doubling

scholarly journals The Linearity of Verb Copying Cleft Construction in Chinese: Semantic Underspecification and Pragmatic Enrichment

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-436
Author(s):  
Moying Li ◽  
Lian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Information ◽  
Pragmatic Enrichment ◽  
Minimal Form ◽  
Standard Chinese ◽  
Internal Syntax ◽  
Verb Doubling

In Standard Chinese, verb doubling cleft construction (henceforth VDCC) has received little attention in the linguistic literature. Recently, Cheng and Vicente (2013) claim that VDCC has the same internal syntax as regular clefts, and two verbs stand in A-bar movement relation based on the lexical identity effect. In this paper, we argue that (1) VDCC is derived in line with the principle of linearity; (2) the first verb is a reduced minimal form acting as a topic which is pragmatically enriched via contextual information; (3) the second verb is interpretively dependent on the first verb.

The verb doubling construction in Japanese

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuji Hatakeyama ◽  
Kensuke Honda ◽  
Kosuke Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Copy Theory Of Movement ◽  
Copy Theory ◽  
Doubling Construction ◽  
Verb Tense ◽  
Verb Doubling

AbstractJapanese has expressions such as Basu-ga ki-ta ki-ta ‘A bus has finally come,’ where the verb-tense complex (ki-ta ‘came’ in this example) is doubled. This paper concentrates on these kinds of expressions, calling them the verb doubling construction (henceforth the VDC). The aim of this paper is to investigate the syntactic structure of the VDC in Japanese. Providing five pieces of evidence that the repeated verb-tense complex occupies the head of CP, we claim that the VDC constitutes a CP structure. We further point out that the analysis proposed here strongly supports the copy theory of movement (Chomsky, 1993).

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