A Note on Misplaced or Wrongly Attached zu in German
Schallert O (2020)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2020
Journal
Book Volume: 32
Pages Range: 43-82
Journal Issue: 1
DOI: 10.1017/S1470542719000138
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.∗
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APA:
Schallert, O. (2020). A Note on Misplaced or Wrongly Attached zu in German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 32(1), 43-82. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542719000138
MLA:
Schallert, Oliver. "A Note on Misplaced or Wrongly Attached zu in German." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 32.1 (2020): 43-82.
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