Comparative Germanic Syntax
The state of the art
Published on 28. August 2012
Book
Hardback
418 pages
978-90-272-5574-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 developments, and 'do-support'-type phenomena. This book is of interest to syntacticians with an interest in theoretical, comparative and/or diachronic work, as well as to morphologists and semanticists interested in the connections their fields have with syntax. It will also be of interest to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in linguistic disciplines.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
+ index
Weight
930 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5574-7 (9789027255747)
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1. List of contributors; 2. Comparative Germanic Syntax: The State of the Art; 3. Modal complement ellipsis: VP ellipsis in Dutch? (by Aelbrecht, Lobke); 4. On the adverbial reading of infrequency adjectives and the structure of the DP (by Alexiadou, Artemis); 5. Crossing the lake: Motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German (by Brandner, Ellen); 6. Preposition-determiner amalgams in German and French at the syntax-morphology interface (by Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia); 7. Conditional clauses, Main Clause Phenomena and the syntax of polarity emphasis (by Danckaert, Lieven); 8. Cross-Germanic variation in binding Condition B (by Hicks, Glyn); 9. Development of sentential negation in the history of German (by Jager, Agnes); 10. Contact, animacy, and affectedness in Germanic (by Lundquist, Bjorn); 11. Syntactic change in progress: The Icelandic "New Construction" as an active impersonal (by Maling, Joan); 12. Cross Germanic variation in the realm of support verbs (by Platzack, Christer); 13. The shift to strict VO in English at the PF-interface (by Pysz, Agnieszka); 14. Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in Across The Board by means of asymmetric extraction + ellipsis (by Salzmann, Martin); 15. A morphologically guided matching approach to German(ic) relative constructions (by Struckmeier, Volker); 16. Index