Repairs: The Added Value of Being Wrong

385 Pages·2013·1.399 MB·English

by  Patrick Brandt, Eric Fuss

Patrick Brandt and Eric Fuß (Eds.)
Repairs
Interface Explorations
Editors
Artemis Alexiadou and T. Alan Hall
Volume 27
Repairs
The Added Value of Being Wrong
Edited by
Patrick Brandt and Eric Fuß
ISBN 978-1-61451-080-2
e-ISBN 978-1-61451-079-6
ISSN 1861-4167
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Acknowledgements
A serious and often enough irreparable mistake consists in not having acknowl-
edged someone (or something) who (or which) one should have acknowledged.
The editors feel that it would be an even bigger mistake not to acknowledge at
all (and more acknowledgements can be found in the initial footnotes or in the
appendices to the individual contributions). They wish to express their gratitude
for the professional support and kind help coming from the Deutsche Gesells chaft
für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), during the 31st meeting of which a workshop
“Repairs” was held in the city of Osnabrück that was a sine qua non among the
conditions that had to be met. Given those moments’ richnesses vis-a-vis their
fading presence, it is a matter of course that less than the biggest part of the struc-
ture of the event could be preserved in the mapping to the present product (nor
should it have been).
The editors are grateful to the authors for their enthusiasm and patience, to
the peer reviewers for their indispensable help, and to the editing and produc-
tion team at De Gruyter for their careful attendance. The following alphabetic but
otherwise unsorted list of co-operators may be hoped to strike a balance between
transparent recognition and personal confidentiality.
Artemis Alexiadou (U Stuttgart), Olga Borik (U Autònoma Barcelona),
Jennifer Carlson (De Gruyter), Regine Eckardt (U Göttingen), Emily Farrell
(De Gruyter), Günther Grewendorf (U Frankfurt), Fabian Heck (U Leipzig), Daniel
Hole (HU Berlin), Wolfgang Konwitschny (De Gruyter), Cécile Meier (U Frank-
furt), Sonja Müller (U Bielefeld), Andreas Pankau (U Frankfurt), Beatrice Primus
(U Köln), Angelika Wöllstein (IDS Mannheim), Lara Wysong (De Gruyter).
All collective and individual efforts notwithstanding, there is prone to be mis-
takes, errors and misunderstandings remaining. Hopefully, these can be repaired,
to the extent that they aren’t don’t cares, or forgiven.
P.B.
E.F.

Contributors
Josef Bayer Holden Härtl
General and Germanic Linguistics Universität Kassel
Department of Linguistics Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik
University of Konstanz Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5
Universitätsstraße 10 34125 Kassel
Box D 191 Germany
78457 Konstanz
Germany Joost Kremers
Universität Göttingen
Marcel den Dikken Seminar für Deutsche Philologie
Linguistics Program Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3
CUNY Graduate Center 37073 Göttingen
365 Fifth Avenue Germany
New York, NY 10016-4309
USA Ivona Kucerova
Linguistics & Languages
Mojmír Dočekal Togo Salmon Hall 608
Department of Linguistics McMaster University
and Baltic Languages 1280 Main Street West
Masaryk University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2
Arna Nováka 1/1
602 00 Brno Martin Salzmann
Czech Republic University of Leipzig
Department of Linguistics
Bernhard Fisseni Beethovenstraße 15
Fachbereich Mathematik 04107 Leipzig
Universität Hamburg Germany
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg Hans-Christian Schmitz
Germany Fraunhofer FIT
Schloss Birlinghoven
53754 Sankt Augustin
Germany
viii       Contributors
Florian Schäfer Volker Struckmeier
Institut für Linguistik/Anglistik Institut für Deutsche Sprache und
Universität Stuttgart Literatur I
Keplerstraße 17 Albertus Magnus Platz
70174 Stuttgart Universität zu Köln
Germany 50923 Köln
Germany
Contents
Acknowledgements  v
Contributors  vii
Patrick Brandt and Eric Fuß
1 Introduction  1
Mojmir Dočekal and Ivona Kucerová
2 Semantic competition over morphological representations.
A case study from Slavic  31
Hans-Christian Schmitz and Bernhard Fisseni
3 Repairs for Reasoning  55
Holden Härtl
4 Generic rescue: Argument alternations and the monotonicity
condition  95
Marcel den Dikken
5 Prepare and Repair: On pre-emptive strikes and post-hoc
patches  131
Martin Salzmann
6 Repair-driven verb movement in English locative inversion  155
Joost Kremers
7 Linearisation as repair  207
Volker Struckmeier
8 Repairing resumptive structures, or: How faulty is the Lexicon?  237
Josef Bayer and Martin Salzmann
9 That-trace effects and resumption – How Improper Movement can be
repaired  275
Florian Schäfer
10 Passives of reflexive verbs: The repair of a Principle A violation  335
Subject index  365