Abstract
This paper deals with the misplacement of the infinitival marker zu '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 of zu in Standard German due to auxiliary fronting, as well as other types of zu-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.*
Dokumententyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
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Fakultät: | Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Department 1 |
Themengebiete: | 400 Sprache > 400 Sprache |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-88648-0 |
ISSN: | 1470-5427 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Dokumenten ID: | 88648 |
Datum der Veröffentlichung auf Open Access LMU: | 25. Jan. 2022, 09:27 |
Letzte Änderungen: | 18. Sep. 2023, 13:48 |