A Note on Misplaced or Wrongly Attached zu in German

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ID21722808
AuthorsOliver Schallert (0000-0002-3491-5087, Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume32
Issue1
Pages43-82
Publication date2020-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Germanic Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-5427 • E-ISSN: 1475-3014
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1470542719000138
OpenAlexW3004632475
LanguageEN
References cited29

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

Epistemology · German · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Computer Science · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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