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<p>This paper investigates the syntax of <span>vso</span> and <span>vos</span> clauses in Mandar (Austronesian) by leveraging the prosody. This language allows free alternations between <span>vso</span> and <span>vos</span> orders, but phonotactic diagnostics reveal that <span>vso</span> strings are optimally parsed into tight prosodic constituents while <span>vos</span> strings are not. These results converge with syntactic diagnostics to show that <span>vso</span> orders arise from leftward movement of the verb while <span>vos</span> orders are generated through an additional step of rightward <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <InlineMediaObject> <ImageObject Color="BlackWhite" FileRef="MediaObjects/11049_2024_9634_IEq1_HTML.gif" Format="GIF" Height="11" Rendition="HTML" Resolution="120" Type="Linedraw" Width="10" /> </InlineMediaObject> </InlineEquation>-scrambling of the <span>s</span>. Targeted manipulations then reveal that phonological phrases can be built around substrings of arguments in the <span>vso</span> string, providing a new type of evidence for fine functional structure in the extended <span>vp</span> (Larson <CitationRef CitationID="CR93">1988</CitationRef>). The prosodic parse of scrambled arguments, finally, shows that <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <InlineMediaObject> <ImageObject Color="BlackWhite" FileRef="MediaObjects/11049_2024_9634_IEq2_HTML.gif" Format="GIF" Height="11" Rendition="HTML" Resolution="120" Type="Linedraw" Width="10" /> </InlineMediaObject> </InlineEquation>-scrambling places its targets in adjunct positions (Chomsky <CitationRef CitationID="CR24">1993</CitationRef>) in Mandar, setting up an account of scrambling that is grounded in the principle of Greed (Lasnik <CitationRef CitationID="CR95">1995</CitationRef>).</p>

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The prosody of the extended VP

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    2025年2月27日

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  • Dan Brodkin

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This paper investigates the syntax of vso and vos clauses in Mandar (Austronesian) by leveraging the prosody. This language allows free alternations between vso and vos orders, but phonotactic diagnostics reveal that vso strings are optimally parsed into tight prosodic constituents while vos strings are not. These results converge with syntactic diagnostics to show that vso orders arise from leftward movement of the verb while vos orders are generated through an additional step of rightward -scrambling of the s. Targeted manipulations then reveal that phonological phrases can be built around substrings of arguments in the vso string, providing a new type of evidence for fine functional structure in the extended vp (Larson 1988). The prosodic parse of scrambled arguments, finally, shows that -scrambling places its targets in adjunct positions (Chomsky 1993) in Mandar, setting up an account of scrambling that is grounded in the principle of Greed (Lasnik 1995).