The Syntax of Givenness Ivona Kucerová

Contents
1 To Be Given 6
1.1 G-movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.2 Basic word order and Focus projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.3 Verb partitions and their semantic ambiguity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.4 The boundedness of G-movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
1.5 The distribution of pronouns: G-movement as a last Resort . . . . . . . . . 34
1.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
2 G-movement 41
2.1 The target of G-movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.2 When in the derivation does G-movement apply? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.3 The head movement restriction on G-movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
2.4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3 Complex Word Order Patterns 64
3.1 Deriving the verb partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
3.2 Multiple G-movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
3.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
4 Semantic Interpretation 86
4.1 Where we stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
4.2 Marking givenness by an operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
4.2.1 G-movement domains are propositional domains . . . . . . . . . . 94
4.2.2 The G-operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.3 The evaluation component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
4.4 The G-operator and coordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
4.5 The interpretation of Givenness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
4.6 Givenness versus deaccentuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
4.7 A note on phonology and its relation to givenness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
4.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
A G-movement is A-movement 133
A.1 Condition A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
A.2 Condition C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
A.3 The Weak Cross-Over Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
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