Object Shift and Scrambling

In the formal part of our research project on objec t positions, we have been spending a lot of the tim e in the first year on collecting data, and these dat a often turned out to be different from what the literature would have led us to expect. What follow s is hopefully not just a long list of different da ta, but rather a number of new and old sets of data whi ch will be able to shed light on what determines the positions of objects. In our project descriptio n (www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/engsv/ objectpositions/proj-en.htm) , we set out some of the potentially crucial factor s, such as morphological and abstract case, the mapping between syntax and i nformation structure, and the question of to which extent language particular properties can be derive d from more general (potentially universal) properties. In the context here, this last question turns into a question of to which extent the differences betwe en the two movements discussed (object shift, OS, in t he Scandinavian languages and scrambling, SCR, in the continental West Germanic languages) can be derived from independent differences between the two types of languages.

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