Project C08
Consequences of head argument order for syntax
PI(s): Prof. Dr. Martin Salzmann
The project tests 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 is 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.
A description of the methodology as well as the complete questionnaire can be found on the project’s OSF-page.
The project was originally designed by Prof. Gisbert Fanselow (1959–2022).
Members
Prof. Dr. Martin Salzmann (+49) 331 977-256152 martin.salzmann.1@uni-potsdam.de Homepage Universität ORCID
Dr. phil. Andreas Hölzl (+49) 331 977-2051 andreas.hoelzl@uni-potsdam.de Homepage Academia GoogleScholar ORCID
Papers
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Published in | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Fanselow, G., Barbiers, L.C.J., Brown, J., Delbar, N., Nauta, S., & Rothert, J. | On the asymmetry of wh-doubling in varieties of German and Dutch. | 2024 | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 43(1), 41-64. DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2024-2003 | |
| Hölzl, A. | Postnominal flagging and OV in Sinitic: Areal and typological perspectives. | 2024 | Studies in Language, Online First. DOI: 10.1075/sl.23055.hol | |
| Seržant, I. A., Say, S., Hölzl, A., Zakirova, A., Gao, X., & Pregla, A. | A typology of positional differential argument marking. | to appear | Linguistic Typology. |
Talks
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Published in | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam, N., Hölzl, A., & Schmidt, A. | Aspects of the OV/VO alternation. | 2022 | Paper presented at the 'Alternatives, Contexts, and Variation'. Workshop of the linguistic CRCs (Berlin). 04 - 05 July. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Schmidt, A. | South Sámi in the typology of SAuxOV languages. | 2022 | Paper presented at the Syntax of Uralic Languages 4, Online, 14 – 16 June. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Hölzl, A. | Unusual word order features in Longjia and Caijia. | 2022 | Paper presented at the SynSem Colloquium, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 26 July. | |
| Hölzl, A. | Case marking systems in Sinitic OV languages: Synchrony and diachrony. | 2023 | Paper presented at the 'Explaining the cross-linguistic distribution of argument-coding patterns' (EDAP 2023), University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 21-23 May. | |
| Adam, N., & Hölzl, A. | Consequences of Head Argument Order for Syntax. | 2023 | Paper presented at the Workshop on Gisbert Fanselow’s Contributions to Syntactic Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 27-29 April. | |
| Gao, X., & Hölzl, A. | The word order of oblique phrases in Sinitic languages of Hunan. | 2023 | Paper presented at the SynSem Colloquium, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 21 November. | |
| Hölzl, A., & Bognana, M. | Numeral classifiers in Bwamu. | 2024 | Paper presented at the Vielfaltslinguistik 6, University of Graz, Graz, Austria. 14-15 June. | |
| Pregla, A., & Hölzl, A. | Agent anaphors in Nepali. | 2024 | Paper presented at the Syntax of the World's Languages IX, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, Peru, 23-26 July. | |
| Hölzl, A. | Prenominal relative clauses in VO and postnominal genitives in OV languages. | 2024 | Paper presented at the Syntax of the World's Languages IX, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, Peru, 23-26 July. | |
| Hölzl, A. | Correlative relative clauses: Their definition and correlation with OV order. | 2024 | Paper presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2024), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finnland. 21-24 August. |
