Doubling by movement within and from PP in Alemannic German
Colin Davis, David Diem
March 2025 

[To appear in Glossa as "Doubling by movement within and from PP in Lustenau Alemannic: On the structure of prepositional phrases and the realization of copies".] We analyze a morpho-syntactic puzzle from an Austrian variety of Alemannic German, which we term Lustenau Alemannic. We focus on certain pronouns, termed Rpronouns in Germanic linguistics, and their behavior in PPs. Unlike typical nominals in German, R-pronouns precede prepositions. Across German varieties, many speakers can extract R-pronouns from PP. This process is also present in Lustenau Alemannic, except that use of an R-pronoun in PP or extraction of it from PP requires the inclusion of another morpheme, which normallywould mean ‘it’. In the context of Distributed Morphology and a Copy Theory of movement, we explain this doubling as phonologically-motivated lower copy pronunciation in a movement chain through a multi-layered PP.

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keywords:	doubling, german, alemannic, prepositions, morphology, syntax
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