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This chapter deals with adverbial resumption and clausal correlation in Present-Day German and historical German. In Present-Day German, various types of adverbials, including adverbial clauses, can be dislocated in a construction that can be parallelized with the German Left Dislocation construction that has been discussed for nominal arguments. Furthermore, the chapter argues that in cases where adverbial clauses are seemingly resumed by the adverb so, so is an expletive-like element that fills the matrix prefield after a syntactically unintegrated clause. In historical German, adverbial clauses were obligatorily base-generated in a peripheral, matrix-“external” position. Examples that look similar or identical to a left-dislocated integrated adverbial clause of the modern type were formerly instances of correlative clauses, and adverbial clauses were largely free relative clauses. The surface similarity between a complex sentence with a left-peripheral correlative clause and a dislocated integrated clause probably enabled a reanalysis and the development of clausal integration. |
