Comparative Germanic Syntax : the State of the Art.

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Ackema, Peter, 1965-

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TextSeries: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics TodayPublication details: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (434 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789027273642
9027273642

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

430.045 430/.045 435

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PD101 .C66 2012

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Contents:

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.

In: EBLSummary: 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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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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