Gema Chocano

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gema Chocano is involved.

Title

Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form: Scrambling in the Germanic languages

Gema Chocano

‘Scrambling’, the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic ‘Object Shift’. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 109] 2007. x, 333 pp.

Articles

Chocano, Gema 2012 Chapter 7. On the fronting of non-contrastive topics in Germanic Of Grammar, Words, and Verses: In honor of Carlos Piera, Torrego, Esther (ed.), pp. 143–169 | Article

The present chapter proposes a novel account of the existence of fronted non-contrastive topics in German and its absence in Dutch. The main claim is that the relevant difference between the two languages reduces to the type of scrambling they have: only Dutch scrambling is triggered by an… read more

Chocano, Gema 2009 Musings on the left periphery in West Germanic: German left dislocation and ‘survive’ Towards a Derivational Syntax: Survive-minimalism, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 57–90 | Article

An analysis of German Left Dislocation is proposed which combines the findings in recent work on the construction with a theoretical model of syntactic derivation that dispenses with the existence of the EPP-feature. The findings at stake are basically those in Frey (2000, 2004a), where it is shown… read more