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Linglib.Phenomena.WordOrder.Studies.HarizanovGribanova2019

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 #

Disputed: V-to-I in German embedded clauses #

@cite{harizanov-gribanova-2019} (§5.1.2) and @cite{westergaard-2009} (Table 3.1) make incompatible claims about whether the finite verb raises to I/T/Fin in German embedded finite clauses.

The empirical diagnostic — @cite{roberts-1993}'s V-to-I diagnostic kit — is the position of the embedded finite verb relative to sentence adverbs (e.g. oft, wahrscheinlich) and negation. Both analyses derive verb-final surface order; they disagree about whether V crosses I on the way there. The codebase records Westergaard's positive claim via Fragments.German.german's .Fin membership; @cite{harizanov-gribanova-2019}'s denial lives in prose ("no V-to-I" is not a positive Lean witness), but the contradiction with Westergaard is formalized as a refutation theorem below via the westergaardToMovementParam projection.

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

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

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

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

@cite{westergaard-2009}'s positive claim: German embedded clauses have V-to-I (= +Fin°). @cite{harizanov-gribanova-2019} disputes this analytically (no V-to-I; verb stays in V). Re-exported from Westergaard2009.fin_only_german so this file's H&G-vs-Westergaard section has the witness in scope; the actual decide lives in Westergaard2009. The H&G "no V-to-I" denial is encoded as a refutation theorem below via the westergaardToMovementParam projection.

Project @cite{westergaard-2009}'s V2 micro-parameter profile into @cite{pollock-1989}'s V-movement parameter: the +Fin° micro-parameter (V-to-Fin / V-to-I) in the V2 profile corresponds to .raises in VMovementParam; its absence corresponds to .inSitu. Lets the otherwise-incompatible Westergaard and H&G accounts contradict each other on a common Lean object.

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    @cite{harizanov-gribanova-2019}'s prediction for German embedded finite clauses: V stays in V — no V-to-I, no V-to-T.

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      @cite{harizanov-gribanova-2019} predicts .inSitu for German embedded clauses; @cite{westergaard-2009}'s V2 profile, projected via westergaardToMovementParam, predicts .raises. The two frameworks make contradictory predictions about a single Lean object — formalizing the long-standing Vikner-vs.-Haider / Westergaard-vs.-H&G dispute about V-to-I in German.