TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ackema,Peter
AU  - Alcorn,Rhona
AU  - Heycock,Caroline B.
AU  - Jaspers,Dany
AU  - Van Craenenbroeck,Jeroen
AU  - Vanden Wyngaerd,Guido
TI  - Comparative Germanic Syntax: the State of the Art
T2  - Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
SN  - 9789027273642
AV  - PD101 .C66 2012 
U1  - 430.045430/.045435 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Amsterdam/Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - Germanic languages
KW  - Grammar, Comparative
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Langues germaniques
KW  - Grammaire comparée
KW  - Syntaxe
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
KW  - German
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Modal complement ellipsis: VP ellipsis in Dutch?; Lobke Aelbrecht --; On the adverbial reading of infrequency adjectives and the structure of the DP; Artemis Alexiadou & Cinzia Campanini --; Crossing the lake: motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German; Ellen Brandner & Martin Salzmann --; Preposition-determiner amalgams in German and French at the syntax-morphology interface; Patricia Cabredo Hofherr --; Conditional clauses, main clause phenomena and the syntax of polarity emphasis; Lieven Danckaert & Liliane Haegeman --; Cross-Germanic variation in binding condition B; Glyn Hicks --; Development of sentential negation in the history of German; Anges Jäger & Doris Penka --; Contact, animacy, and affectedness in Germanic; Björn Lundquist & Gillian Ramchand --; Syntactic change in progress: the Icelandic "new construction" as an active impersonal; Joan Maling & Sigríǒr Sigurjónsdóttir --; Cross Germanic variation in the realm of support verbs; Christer Platzack --; The shift to strict VO in English at the PF-interface; Agnieszka Pysz & Bartosz Wiland --; Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in across The Board Movement by means of asymmetric extraction + ellipsis; Martin Salzmann --; A morphology guided matching approach to German(ic) relative constructions; Volker Struckmeier
N2  - The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of Germanic languages. Among the theoretical and empirical issues explored are various ellipsis phenomena, the internal structure of the DP, the syntax-morphology interface, the syntax-semantics interface, Binding Theory, various diachronic developmen
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