Found:
scrambling
SYNTAX: cover term for specific kind of word order variation. In the tudy of Germanic SOV-languages the term is used to refer to word order variation of argument NPs with respect to each other and/or with respect to adverbial phrases. EXAMPLE: in German an object may follow or precede an adverb (object and adverb may be scrambled):
(i) a Er hat ihr vielleicht dieses Buch gegeben
he has her maybe this book given
b Er hat ihr dieses Buch vielleicht gegeben
Two objects may be scrambled as well:
(ii) Er hat dieses Buch vielleicht ihr gegebenAnd sometimes an object - den Max in (iii) - may even scramble over the subject, as in (iii)b:
(iii) a ... dass jeder den Max kennt
that everyone (the) Max knows
b ... dass den Max jeder kennt
It seems that definiteness is a factor interfering with scrambling. Nonspecific indefinite NPs cannot be scrambled and neither can particles or small clause predicates. One point of controversy is whether scrambling is a case of movement (of NP) and if so whether it is A-bar movement or not.
| LIT. | Grewendorf , G & W. Sternefeld (eds.) (1990) Neeleman, A. (1994) Ross, J.R. (1967) Webelhuth, G. (1989) Webelhuth, G. & H. Den Besten (1987) |