Discourse Effects, Case Marking and Scrambling in OV Languages (S. Karimi, Word Order and Scrambling)

Scrambling: Nontriggered Chain Formation in OV Languages

In this paper we argue for the following properties of clause-bound scrambling, as they are manifested in German. First, scrambling presupposes head-final projections. Only selected constituents, notably arguments, scramble, the reason being that phrases selected by a head have a unique base order. Second, scrambling involves antecedent-gap dependencies with A-chain properties. Third, scramblin...

Word order scrambling as a consequence of incremental sentence production

Case and configurationality : scrambling or mapping ?

Kanum, a language of southern New Guinea, displays nonconfigurationality only for arguments marked with an overt structural case. After examining a variety of constraints on scrambling, in main and subordinate clauses, I argue that nonconfigurationality is a process of scrambling, rather than independent mapping from functional structure to constituency, and further is dependent on features ass...

Karimi , Simin ( 1999 ) ' Is scrambling as strange as we think it is ? , ' MIT

Scrambling and the PF Interface

1. Introduction The position in which an argument is projected is usually assumed to be determined strictly by conditions of the computational system (X-bar theory) and the LF interface (Θ-theory). We will argue that these systems, although they obviously restrict the distribution of arguments, still allow in many cases a range of positions in which a given argument can be generated (merged). I...