Discourse Conditions on Relative Clauses: A Crosslinguistic and Diachronic Study on the Interaction between Mood, Verb Position and Information Structure

Marco Coniglio; Roland Hinterhölzl

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Chapter 8 Discourse Conditions on Relative Clauses: A Crosslinguistic and Diachronic Study on the Interaction between Mood, Verb Position and Information Structure

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Marco Coniglio

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Page Range:: 201–233

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004436725_009

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In this paper, we survey mood and verb placement in (Old High and Modern) German and Italian relative clauses in a comparative perspective (cf. Haegeman, this volume, for verb alternation between V2 and V3 orders in matrix clauses). First, we show that the factors determining verb placement in Modern German relatives are analogous to those determining mood alternations in the Romance languages, in which the use of the indicative or of the subjunctive in the relative clause is connected with a different interpretation of its head noun. In Modern German, the interpretation of the head noun is reflected through verb placement: while verb-final relatives allow for a de re and a de dicto interpretation of the head noun, V2 relatives only allow for a de re interpretation. Second, given that Old High German relative clauses both displayed mood and verb placement alternations, we investigate the interaction between the two types of alternations and their development. We show that mood alternations in Old High German have the same functions as mood alternations in Italian and that, in the course of time, German has lost this type of alternations in favor of alternations in the placement of the verb.

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Information Structuring in Discourse

丛编： Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface, 卷： 40

ISBN:: 9789004436725

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 23 Nov 2020

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