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Verb Doubling and Dummy Verb - Gap Avoidance Strategies in Verbal Fronting (Paperback)
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Verb Doubling and Dummy Verb - Gap Avoidance Strategies in Verbal Fronting (Paperback)
Series: Linguistische Arbeiten
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This monograph provides the first cross-linguistic study of repair
strategies in verbal fronting, verb doubling and do-support,
addressing both typological properties and theoretical aspects.
First, it brings together data hitherto scattered across the
empirical and theoretical literature and adds newly collected data
from two African languages. For each of the 47 languages, the
properties of verbal fronting are documented in detail. Based on
this sample, the empirical part establishes two novel typological
generalizations regarding the interaction between the size of the
fronted category and the type of repair strategy used. The first of
these identifies a systematic typological gap: No language that
allows both verb and verb phrase fronting has do-support with the
former and verb doubling with the latter. In the theoretical part,
it is shown that previous theories of verb doubling/do-support are
unable to account for both generalizations. A new approach within
the Copy Theory of the Minimalist Framework is developed, that
rests on the interaction of head movement, copy deletion, and the
properties of different movement types. The book thus provides the
first comprehensive empirical and theoretical overview of repair
patterns in verbal fronting.
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