Parameters of Predicate Fronting

In Parameters of Predicate Fronting, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Dennis Ott bring together leaders in the field of comparative syntax to explore the empirical manifestations and theoretical modelling of predicate fronting across languages. Including analysis of English, German, Malagasy, Niuean, Ch'ol, Asante, Twi, Limbum, Krachi, Hebrew, and multiple sign languages, this volume takes researchers one step closer to a complete understanding of the uniformity and variation in predicate fronting across languages.

Vera Lee-Schoenfeld is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Beyond Coherence: The Syntax of Opacity in German (2007).
Dennis Ott is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Chapter 1: Parameters of Predicate Fronting
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Dennis Ott
Chapter 2: Verb Phrase I-topics in German
Anya Hogoboom and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Chapter 3: VP Fronting within a Movement Typology
Lisa deMena Travis and Diane Massam
Chapter 4: The Use of Prosody as a Diagnostic for Syntactic Structure
Lauren Clemens
Chapter 5: V(P)-fronting in Asanta Twi and Limbum
Johannes Hein
Chapter 6: Predicate Fronting with Verb Doubling in Krachi
Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence
Chapter 7: Predicate Doubling by Phonological Copying
Gereon Müller
Chapter 8: Clause-initial Vs in Sign Languages
Donna Jo Napoli and Rachel Sutton Spence