In recent years, a number of arguments have been put forward stating that regular conditional
clauses preceding theirmatrix clause are derived bymeans ofmovement: They are base-generated low in the
tree and then moved to the high clause-initial position. Using data from English and German, I show in this
short paper that these arguments carry over straightforwardly to less canonical conditional constructions
such as V1-conditionals and conditional conjunction constructions. That suggests that, if the original argu-
ments hold, then V1-conditionals and conditional conjunction constructions should be derived bymovement as well.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:92116 |
| Date | 18 June 2024 |
| Creators | Weisser, Philipp |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 2199-174X, 10.1515/lingvan-2019-0008 |
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