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German Evidence for a Universal Clause Union Rule*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Sheila M. Embleton
Sheila M. Embleton*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Extract

Perlmutter posits a universally-applicable Clause Union (CU) rule as follows:

  1. (a) If the downstairs clause is intransitive, downstairs 1 becomes upstairs 2.

  2. (b) If it is transitive, downstairs 2 becomes upstairs 2, and downstairs 1 becomes upstairs 3.

  3. (c) Deviations will be the result of (i) PSV or (ii) DAT MVT.

Type
Remarks/Rémarques
Information
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , Spring 1979 , pp. 48 - 51
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1986

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References

Harbert, Wayne (1977) “Clause union and German accusative plus infinitive constructions.” In Cole, Peter and Sadock, Jerrold M., eds., Syntax and Semantics Volume 8: Grammatical Relations, Academic Press: New York. 121–49.Google Scholar
Reis, Marga (1973) “Is there a rule of Subject-to-Object raising in German?” In Corum, C., Smith-Stark, T. C., and Weiser, A., eds., Papers from the Ninth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago: Chicago, Illinois. 519–29.Google Scholar