C08
Consequences of head argument order for syntax
PI(s): Prof. Dr. Gisbert Fanselow
The project will test the hypothesis that there are systematic syntactic differences between (S)VO and (S)OV languages that go beyond further laws of linearization for heads and their arguments. For this purpose, comparable data will be collected systematically in a sample of the world’s languages that is as representative as possible. The aim is also to determine whether pertinent typological generalizations are best captured via the ordering of verb and object or via the structural position of the subject.
Members

Prof. Dr. Gisbert Fanselow (✝)
Campus GolmHaus 14, Raum 3.31

Dr. phil. Andreas Hölzl
Campus GolmHaus 14, Raum 3.20
Publications
- Peer-Reviewed: Papers, Journals, Books, Articles of the CRC
- Talk or Presentation: Talks, Presentations, Posters of the CRC
- SFB-Related: not produced in connection with the CRC, but are thematically appropriate
- Other: Papers, Journals, Books, Articles of the CRC, but not peer-reviewed
Author(s) | Title | Year | Published in | Links | Type |
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Fanselow, G., Zimmermann, M., & Philipp, M. | Accessing the availability of inverse scope in German in the covered box paradigm. | 2022 | Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 7(1), 1-24. DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5766 | Paper | Peer-Reviewed |
Adam, N., Hölzl, A., & Schmidt, A. | Aspects of the OV/VO alternation. | 2022 | Paper presented at "Alternatives, Contexts, and Variation". Workshop of the linguistic CRCs (Berlin). 04 - 05 July. | Talk or Presentation | |
Hölzl, A. | Word order change and mixed directionality in Sino-Tibetan: RelN & VO in Caijia and Longjia. | 2022 | Paper presented at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 01 - 05 August. | Talk or Presentation | |
Asztalos, E., Borise, L., Gugán, K., Mus, N., Schmidt, A., & Surányi, B. | Towards more flexible verb-finality via a reanalysis of prosodic structure. | 2022 | Paper presented at the Third AMC Symposium “Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different?”, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. 05 - 07 December. | Talk or Presentation | |
Asztalos, E., Borise, L., Gugán, K., Mus, N., Schmidt, A., & Surányi, B. | From rigid to flexible verb-finality. A prosodically motivated information-structural account of word order change. | 2022 | Paper presented at the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 25) University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 01 - 05 August. | Talk or Presentation | |
Schmidt, A., Asztalos, E., Borise, L., Gugán, K., Mus, N., & Surányi, B. | From rigid to flexible verb-finality. A prosodically motivated information-structural account of word order change. | 2022 | Paper presented at the Syntax/Semantik-Kolloquium, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 21 June. | Talk or Presentation | |
Borise, L., Schmidt, A., & Surányi, B. | A unified account of preverbal foci in the languages of the Caucasus and beyond. | 2022 | Paper presented at the Theoretical Linguistics and Languages of the Caucasus (TLLC), Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turky. 18 - 19 June. | Talk or Presentation | |
Schmidt, A. | South Sámi in the typology of SAuxOV languages. | 2022 | Paper presented at the Syntax of Uralic Languages 4, Online, 14 – 16 June. | Talk or Presentation | |
Asztalos, E., Borise, L., Gugán, K., Mus, N., Schmidt, A., & Surányi, B. | From rigid to flexible verb-finality. A prosodically motivated information-structural account of word order change. | 2022 | Paper presented at the Syntax of Uralic Languages 4, Online. 14 – 16 June. | Talk or Presentation | |
Borise, L., Schmidt, A., & Surányi, B. | Raised and in-situ preverbal foci. A unified account. | 2022 | Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference Prominence in Language, Universität zu Köln, SFB 1252, Cologne, Germany. 02 - 03 June. | Talk or Presentation | |
Borise, L., Schmidt, A., & Surányi, B. | Raised and in-situ preverbal foci. A unified prosodic account. | 2022 | Paper presented at the General Linguistic Colloquium, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. 04 May. | Talk or Presentation | |
Borise, L., Schmidt, A., & Surányi, B. | Raised and in-situ preverbal foci. A unified prosodic account. | 2022 | Poster presented at the 45th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 45) Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. 27 – 29 April. | Talk or Presentation | |
Hölzl, A. | The Etymology of “Manchu”: A Critical Evaluation of the Riverside Hypothesis. | 2023 | International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, 4(2), 160-208. DOI: 10.1163/25898833-00420028 | SFB-Related | |
Barbiers S, Delbar N., Fanselow G., Nauta S., & Rothert J. | On the asymmetry of wh-doubling in varieties of German and Dutch. | accepted | Special Issue of the Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft | Peer-Reviewed |