Infinitival Syntax: Infinitivus Pro Participio as a repair strategy (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today)

and the audiences of the various conferences and talks at which I had the opportunity to present parts of the material. I would also like to thank Kirsten Brock for the thorough proofreading of the final manuscript. Thanks also to my 'non-linguistic' friends for making me think of other things: in particular Désirée, Martin, Nane, Peer, Peter, and Ulrike, thanks! Parts of chapters 6 to 8 are based on Schmid (1999), Schmid (2000), Schmid (2001), and parts of chapters 7 and 9 are based on Schmid and Vogel (2004). Special thanks go to Ralv for a new view on verb clusters, and for reminding me how interesting they are. The research reported in this book was partly supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft as part of the Graduiertenkolleg Linguistische Grundlagen für die Sprachverarbeitung and as part of the project The Optimality-vi Tanja Schmid Theoretic Syntax of German from a Comparative Germanic Perspective (Grant MU 1444/2-1, Principal Investigators: Gereon Müller, Sten Vikner). I would also like to thank the Sonderforschungsbereich 471 at the Universität Konstanz for employing me and thus giving me the opportunity to revise my dissertation. Finally, many thanks go to my parents and most of all to Wolfgang and Hans Leon, to whom this book is dedicated. Contents xi 9.2.4 The influence of stress patterns on verb order . . . . . . . 9.2.5 A case study of Sankt Gallen German . Infinitival Syntax......Page 1 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 Acknowledgements......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 List of constraints......Page 14 1.1 Infinitivus Pro Participio (IPP)......Page 16 1.2 The West Germanic IPP-languages......Page 20 1.3 Goals and organisation......Page 21 2.1 Introduction......Page 24 2.3 Verb classes and IPP......Page 25 2.4 IPP-verbs as past participles......Page 27 2.5 The verb form in the IPP-construction......Page 35 2.6 Overview of IPP-verbs......Page 43 2.7 Summary and questions resulting from the data......Page 48 3. The verb order......Page 50 3.1 Introduction......Page 51 3.2 Causatives......Page 52 3.3 Modals......Page 56 3.4 Perception verbs......Page 61 3.5 Benefactives......Page 66 3.6 Duratives......Page 72 3.7 Inchoatives......Page 77 3.8 Control verbs......Page 82 3.9 Summary from the perspective of the different languages......Page 88 3.10 Summary from the perspective of the different constructions......Page 94 3.11 Summary......Page 97 4. Main features of previous analyses of the IPP......Page 98 4.1 The status of the IPP: Infinitive or past participle?......Page 99 4.2 Triggers and accounts of the IPP-construction......Page 100 4.3 Correlations with respect to IPP......Page 105 4.4 Summary......Page 108 5.1 General introduction......Page 112 5.2 Last resort......Page 115 5.3 Fixed hierarchies......Page 117 6. A case study of German I: Obligatory versus impossible IPP......Page 120 6.1 The data revisited......Page 121 6.2 Morphological selection......Page 125 6.3 Examples of violations of morphological selection......Page 127 6.4 Speculations on an ‘unwanted’ configuration: A trigger constraint for non-finite last resort cases......Page 131 6.5 The form of the repair......Page 138 6.6 The account of the verb form......Page 154 6.7 Summary......Page 156 6.8 Appendix: A reconstruction of the IPP-trigger in terms of harmonic alignment......Page 157 7. A case study of German II: The verb order......Page 168 8.1 Introduction and overview......Page 194 8.2 OT-accounts of optionality......Page 195 8.3 Global ties and neutralization applied to IPP......Page 201 8.4 (Dis-)advantages of the two approaches......Page 211 8.5 Summary......Page 215 9.1 The verb form......Page 216 9.2 The verb order in 3-verb clusters......Page 228 9.3 Summary......Page 245 10. Conclusion......Page 248 References......Page 252 Index......Page 262 The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today......Page 267 "This monograph offers a new analysis of West Germanic 'Infinitivus Pro Participio' (IPP) constructions, within the framework of Optimality Theory. IPP constructions have long been problematic for syntactic theory, because a bare infinitive is preferred over the expected past participle. The book shows how the substitution of the past participle by the infinitive in IPP constructions can be captured straightforwardly if constraints are assumed to be violable. The basic idea is that IPP constructions are exceptional because they violate otherwise valid rules of the language. Thus, IPP is a 'last resort' or repair strategy, which is only visible in cases in which the past participle would be 'even worse'. Furthermore, as the choice of Optimality Theory naturally leads to a crosslinguistic account, the book systematically examines and compares infinitival constructions from seven West Germanic languages including Afrikaans, Dutch, German, West Flemish, and three Swiss German dialects."--BOOK JACKET