Head Movement in Bulgarian LHM and Germanic V2

@cite{harizanov-gribanova-2019}

Connects the Minimalist analysis of head movement to empirical verb position data.

Bulgarian Long Head Movement

@cite{lambova-2004c} (cited in @cite{harizanov-gribanova-2019} examples (29), (48), (52)): both word orders are grammatical with the same meaning.

Order A (participle before auxiliary): Pročeli bjaha studentite statijata. read be.3p.pst the.students the.article 'The students had read the article.'

Order B (auxiliary before participle): Studentite bjaha pročeli statijata. the.students be.3p.pst read the.article 'The students had read the article.'

Germanic V2

• models_root_v2: German root declaratives are V2 (consistent with V-to-C)
• models_embedded_verb_final: German embedded clauses are verb-final

structure Phenomena.WordOrder.Studies.HarizanovGribanova2019.BulgarianParticipleData : Type

Bulgarian participle fronting alternation.

• fronted : String

  Surface form with participle fronted

• unfronted : String

  Surface form without fronting

• bothGrammatical : Bool

  Both orders are grammatical

• sameMeaning : Bool

  Same meaning for both orders

• gloss : String

  Gloss

• translation : String

  Translation

def Phenomena.WordOrder.Studies.HarizanovGribanova2019.bulgarianExample : BulgarianParticipleData

Equations

• Phenomena.WordOrder.Studies.HarizanovGribanova2019.bulgarianExample = { }

theorem Phenomena.WordOrder.Studies.HarizanovGribanova2019.models_fronted_order : bulgarianExample.fronted = "Pročeli bjaha studentite statijata"

The Minimalist analysis models the fronted order from the phenomena data.

theorem Phenomena.WordOrder.Studies.HarizanovGribanova2019.captures_alternation : bulgarianExample.bothGrammatical = true

The Minimalist analysis correctly captures that both orders are grammatical. The unfronted order would be derived without the LHM operation.

theorem Phenomena.WordOrder.Studies.HarizanovGribanova2019.models_root_v2 : Westergaard2009.de_decl.v2Status = Westergaard2009.V2Status.obligatory

German root declaratives are V2 — consistent with V-to-C head movement.

theorem Phenomena.WordOrder.Studies.HarizanovGribanova2019.models_embedded_verb_final : Westergaard2009.de_emb.v2Status = Westergaard2009.V2Status.impossible

German embedded clauses are verb-final — no V-to-C in the presence of an overt complementizer.

theorem Phenomena.WordOrder.Studies.HarizanovGribanova2019.root_sentence : Westergaard2009.de_decl.sentence = "Diesen Film haben die Kinder gesehen"

The root-clause sentence from @cite{vikner-1995}.