TY - BOOK ID - 77939214 TI - Rightward movement in a comparative perspective AU - Webelhuth, Gert AU - Sailer, Manfred AU - Walker, Heike PY - 2013 SN - 9027290636 9789027290632 129971174X 9781299711747 9789027255839 9027255830 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) KW - Predicate and subject (Grammar) KW - Subject and predicate (Grammar) KW - Theme and rheme KW - Topic and comment (Grammar) KW - Focus (Linguistics) KW - Language and languages KW - Syntax KW - Complement (Grammar) KW - Complement. KW - Syntax. KW - Topic and comment. KW - Subject and predicate KW - Verb phrase KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77939214 AB - This article contributes to a better understanding of the syntax-phonology interface. It offers a prosodic trigger for extraposition which accounts for the following asymmetry: While extraposition of subject, adjunct and attributive clauses is optional in German, object clauses must appear in the right periphery of the clause. It is argued that the constituents following an object clause in its preverbal base-position cannot be a parsed into phonological phrases. Such a configuration causes a defective prosodic clause structure. This deficiency is resolved by extraposition, which derives a structure where the formerly unparsed constituents now incorporate into the preceding prosodic constituent. Extraposition is thus considered a last resort strategy. ER -