Stylistic Fronting as Remnant Movement

• Dennis Ott ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Ottawa

     University of Ottawa

     Canadá

     
• Localización: Studia linguistica: A journal of general linguistics, ISSN 0039-3193, Vol. 72, Nº 1, 2018, págs. 1-38
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper presents a novel analysis of Stylistic Fronting (SF) in Icelandic. It is argued that SF is not a head-movement operation, but rather phrasal movement to subject position. Typically, however, independent factors require evacuation movements prior to raising, in which case the fronted phrase moves as a remnant category. It is shown that this approach can account for a variety of otherwise puzzling properties of SF.