How to Get an Object-es into the German Prefield

Abstract

This observation had far reaching consequences for the structure linguists proposed for German. It was one of the main points which led Travis (1984, 1992) (and similarly, e.g., Zwart 1997) to argue for the so-called asymmetric analysis of German verb-second clauses (V2clauses). According to this theory, IPs represent V2-clauses which have the subject as the first element, whereas CPs represent V2-clauses which have a non-subject as the first element. Thus, in this theory the sentences in (1) would get the structures in (2):

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