Susi Wurmbrand
Biographic Data
| ID | 956888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susi Wurmbrand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susi |
| FAMILY NAME | Wurmbrand |
| SIGNATURE | WURMBRAND S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8794-9889 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Size of Clausal Complements
Drawing mainly—but not exclusively—on data from Germanic, this article compares syntactic, morphological, and semantic approaches to size differences of complement clauses. Focusing on two phenomena that have been related to clause size reduction and truncation—Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) and restructuring—it is shown that their distribution is radically different and that clause size cannot be the main factor regulating both of these phenomen…
From Prolepsis to Hyperraising
Case, agreement, and A-movement dependencies across finite clause boundaries, such as Hyperraising (to subject or object) or Long-Distance Case or Agreement [LDA], are available in many typologically diverse languages. The research on such dependencies typically distinguishes between cross-linguistically restricted true A-dependencies across finite clauses, and generally available binding-like A′-dependencies as found in Prolepsis. In this paper,…
Verb Clusters, Verb Raising, and Restructuring
This overview chapter reviews the major generalizations, trends, and theoretical findings of the research on verb clusters. The first part of the overview provides a summary of the diverse empirical distribution of verb clusters across West Germanic, including the results of several recent extensive dialectal studies. The variation within certain dialect groups is hypothesized to be the result of extensive dialectal bilingualism, and a descriptiv…
Stripping and Topless Complements
This article shows that stripping, the elision of declarative TPs, is possible not only in coordinate structures, but also in embedded clauses-however, only when the complementizer is absent. This Embedded Stripping Generalization is not predicted by earlier accounts of stripping, but it falls out from a certain combination of independently available assumptions. Specifically, I propose a zero Spell-Out view of ellipsis in a dynamic (or contextua…
Tense and Aspect in English Infinitives
This article investigates the temporal and aspectual composition of infinitival complementation structures in English. I show that previous classifications of tense in infinitives are insufficient in that they do not cover the entire spectrum of infinitival constructions in English. Using the distribution of nongeneric, nonstative, episodic interpretations as a main characteristic, I show that infinitival constructions fall into three classes: fu…
Parasitic participles in Germanic: Evidence for the theory of verb clusters
This paper investigates a series of Germanic verb constructions, which appear to involve the ‘wrong’ morphology on one or more of the verbs involved: Norwegian parasitic participles, Frisian upward and downward parasitic participles, and the German Skandal construction. I provide an explicit syntactic account unifying the phenomena and deriving the differences from independent differences among the languages. These apparently odd constructions ar…
Word Order and Scope: Transparent Interfaces and the 3⁄4 Signature
A recurring pattern of partial correlations between word order variation and scope possibilities (the 3⁄4 signature) supports a particular view of economy constraints in syntax, with these properties: (1) There are economy conditions (soft constraints) that value a particular type of correspondence between LF and PF representations. (2) These constraints are unidirectional: LF (broadly construed) is calculated first and determines PF (surface wor…
Nor: Neither Disjunction nor Paradox
July 01 2008 Nor: Neither Disjunction nor Paradox In Special Collection: CogNet Susi Wurmbrand Susi Wurmbrand University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Susi Wurmbrand University of Connecticut Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 Linguistic Inquiry (2008) 39 (3): 511–522. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling.2008.39.3…
Complex Predicates, Aspect, and Anti-reconstruction
How Complex Are Complex Predicates
This paper argues that clause union/restructuring constructions such as verb clusters in German do not involve head clustering in the form of (lexical or derived) complex head formation. I provide several arguments showing that clause union properties are licensed in the absence of complex head formation and that complex head formation hence cannot be seen as a condition on clause union/restructuring. Complex head approaches are compared to synta…
Licensing Case
This paper provides evidence that nominative arguments in German and Icelandic not only can be analyzed as remaining in the VP overtly, but that in some constructions these arguments remain internal to VP at all levels of representation, including LF. The paper reviews a variety of recent proposals for Case licensing and argues that only the Agree model (Chomsky 2000) provides for a unified account. Specifically, it is argued that languages such …
The Domain of Agreement
West Germanic verb clusters: The empirical domain
Two types of restructuring-Lexical vs. functional
Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure
Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure offers a detailed study of the clausal architecture of infinitival constructions providing a unified analysis of restructuring, control, modals, and raising. The book critically evaluates previous proposals from both syntactic and semantic perspectives and presents a new analysis incorporating many recent developments in generative linguistic theory. In addition to its theoretical contribution, Infi…
Notes on Agreement in Itelmen
To
The Domain of Agreement
Two types of restructuring-Lexical vs. functional
Tense and Aspect in English Infinitives
This article investigates the temporal and aspectual composition of infinitival complementation structures in English. I show that previous classifications of tense in infinitives are insufficient in that they do not cover the entire spectrum of infinitival constructions in English. Using the distribution of nongeneric, nonstative, episodic interpretations as a main characteristic, I show that infinitival constructions fall into three classes: fu…
Word Order and Scope: Transparent Interfaces and the 3⁄4 Signature
A recurring pattern of partial correlations between word order variation and scope possibilities (the 3⁄4 signature) supports a particular view of economy constraints in syntax, with these properties: (1) There are economy conditions (soft constraints) that value a particular type of correspondence between LF and PF representations. (2) These constraints are unidirectional: LF (broadly construed) is calculated first and determines PF (surface wor…
Stripping and Topless Complements
This article shows that stripping, the elision of declarative TPs, is possible not only in coordinate structures, but also in embedded clauses-however, only when the complementizer is absent. This Embedded Stripping Generalization is not predicted by earlier accounts of stripping, but it falls out from a certain combination of independently available assumptions. Specifically, I propose a zero Spell-Out view of ellipsis in a dynamic (or contextua…
How Complex Are Complex Predicates
This paper argues that clause union/restructuring constructions such as verb clusters in German do not involve head clustering in the form of (lexical or derived) complex head formation. I provide several arguments showing that clause union properties are licensed in the absence of complex head formation and that complex head formation hence cannot be seen as a condition on clause union/restructuring. Complex head approaches are compared to synta…
Nor: Neither Disjunction nor Paradox
July 01 2008 Nor: Neither Disjunction nor Paradox In Special Collection: CogNet Susi Wurmbrand Susi Wurmbrand University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Susi Wurmbrand University of Connecticut Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 Linguistic Inquiry (2008) 39 (3): 511–522. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling.2008.39.3…
The Size of Clausal Complements
Drawing mainly—but not exclusively—on data from Germanic, this article compares syntactic, morphological, and semantic approaches to size differences of complement clauses. Focusing on two phenomena that have been related to clause size reduction and truncation—Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) and restructuring—it is shown that their distribution is radically different and that clause size cannot be the main factor regulating both of these phenomen…
Notes on Agreement in Itelmen
To
Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure
Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure offers a detailed study of the clausal architecture of infinitival constructions providing a unified analysis of restructuring, control, modals, and raising. The book critically evaluates previous proposals from both syntactic and semantic perspectives and presents a new analysis incorporating many recent developments in generative linguistic theory. In addition to its theoretical contribution, Infi…
West Germanic verb clusters: The empirical domain
Two types of restructuring-Lexical vs. functional
The Domain of Agreement
Licensing Case
This paper provides evidence that nominative arguments in German and Icelandic not only can be analyzed as remaining in the VP overtly, but that in some constructions these arguments remain internal to VP at all levels of representation, including LF. The paper reviews a variety of recent proposals for Case licensing and argues that only the Agree model (Chomsky 2000) provides for a unified account. Specifically, it is argued that languages such …
Complex Predicates, Aspect, and Anti-reconstruction
How Complex Are Complex Predicates
This paper argues that clause union/restructuring constructions such as verb clusters in German do not involve head clustering in the form of (lexical or derived) complex head formation. I provide several arguments showing that clause union properties are licensed in the absence of complex head formation and that complex head formation hence cannot be seen as a condition on clause union/restructuring. Complex head approaches are compared to synta…
Nor: Neither Disjunction nor Paradox
July 01 2008 Nor: Neither Disjunction nor Paradox In Special Collection: CogNet Susi Wurmbrand Susi Wurmbrand University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Susi Wurmbrand University of Connecticut Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 Linguistic Inquiry (2008) 39 (3): 511–522. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling.2008.39.3…
Parasitic participles in Germanic: Evidence for the theory of verb clusters
This paper investigates a series of Germanic verb constructions, which appear to involve the ‘wrong’ morphology on one or more of the verbs involved: Norwegian parasitic participles, Frisian upward and downward parasitic participles, and the German Skandal construction. I provide an explicit syntactic account unifying the phenomena and deriving the differences from independent differences among the languages. These apparently odd constructions ar…
Word Order and Scope: Transparent Interfaces and the 3⁄4 Signature
A recurring pattern of partial correlations between word order variation and scope possibilities (the 3⁄4 signature) supports a particular view of economy constraints in syntax, with these properties: (1) There are economy conditions (soft constraints) that value a particular type of correspondence between LF and PF representations. (2) These constraints are unidirectional: LF (broadly construed) is calculated first and determines PF (surface wor…
Tense and Aspect in English Infinitives
This article investigates the temporal and aspectual composition of infinitival complementation structures in English. I show that previous classifications of tense in infinitives are insufficient in that they do not cover the entire spectrum of infinitival constructions in English. Using the distribution of nongeneric, nonstative, episodic interpretations as a main characteristic, I show that infinitival constructions fall into three classes: fu…
Verb Clusters, Verb Raising, and Restructuring
This overview chapter reviews the major generalizations, trends, and theoretical findings of the research on verb clusters. The first part of the overview provides a summary of the diverse empirical distribution of verb clusters across West Germanic, including the results of several recent extensive dialectal studies. The variation within certain dialect groups is hypothesized to be the result of extensive dialectal bilingualism, and a descriptiv…
Stripping and Topless Complements
This article shows that stripping, the elision of declarative TPs, is possible not only in coordinate structures, but also in embedded clauses-however, only when the complementizer is absent. This Embedded Stripping Generalization is not predicted by earlier accounts of stripping, but it falls out from a certain combination of independently available assumptions. Specifically, I propose a zero Spell-Out view of ellipsis in a dynamic (or contextua…
From Prolepsis to Hyperraising
Case, agreement, and A-movement dependencies across finite clause boundaries, such as Hyperraising (to subject or object) or Long-Distance Case or Agreement [LDA], are available in many typologically diverse languages. The research on such dependencies typically distinguishes between cross-linguistically restricted true A-dependencies across finite clauses, and generally available binding-like A′-dependencies as found in Prolepsis. In this paper,…
The Size of Clausal Complements
Drawing mainly—but not exclusively—on data from Germanic, this article compares syntactic, morphological, and semantic approaches to size differences of complement clauses. Focusing on two phenomena that have been related to clause size reduction and truncation—Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) and restructuring—it is shown that their distribution is radically different and that clause size cannot be the main factor regulating both of these phenomen…
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