Full Description
Dialect syntax has proven to be an invaluable data source for theoretical syntax, and theoretical syntax has provided useful analytical tools for uncovering fascinating grammatical properties of dialects. In the 1980s, the assumption that there must be more than one structural position in the left periphery of the clause was confirmed (among others) by so-called "doubly filled COMPs" in Bavarian (e.g. the co-occurrence of a wh-phrase and a complementizer), and in the 1990s, Northern Italian dialects provided the main empirical evidence for Rizzi's extended theory of the left clausal periphery (the so-called "Split-C-hypothesis"). Among German dialects, Bavarian played a prominent role from the beginning: in addition to doubly-filled COMPs we find phenomena such as complementizer agreement, partial pro-drop, pronominal clitics, extractions from finite clauses introduced by complementizers, negative concord, parasitic gaps, or double possessors, all of which are fascinating and highly relevant for theoretical syntax. The contributions in this volume investigate and analyze a wide range of topics from Bavarian syntax with the focus on implications for general theoretical questions. This volume is of interest for any linguist interested in syntactic theory and dialect syntax.
Contents
1. Aspects of Bavarian syntax (by Grewendorf, Gunther); 2. 1. COMP Phenomena; 3. Syntactic and phonological properties of wh-operators and wh-movement in Bavarian (by Bayer, Josef); 4. Complementizer agreement (in Bavarian): Feature inheritance or feature insertion? (by Fuss, Eric); 5. The rise and fall of double agreement: A comparison between Carinthian and Kansas Bukovina Bohemian (by Wratil, Melani); 6. 2. Extraction Phenomena; 7. Structures of 'emphatic topicalization' in Bavarian (by Lutz, Uli); 8. Gaps and parasitic gaps in Bavarian (by Grewendorf, Gunther); 9. Observations on relative clauses in Bavarian (by Kallulli, Dalina); 10. 3. Non-clausal Phenomena; 11. Really weird subjects. The syntax of family names in Bavarian. (by Weiss, Helmut); 12. Austro-Bavarian directionals: toward a bigger picture (by Gruber, Bettina); 13. IPP-Constructions in Alemannic and Bavarian in comparison (by Schallert, Oliver); 14. 4. The Topography of Southern German Dialects; 15. The Upper German differential: main Austrian-Bavarian vs. (High) Alemannic differences (by Abraham, Werner); 16. Index
