Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax

Editors

Artemis Alexiadou | University of Stuttgart

Jorge Hankamer | UCSC

Thomas McFadden | University of Stuttgart

Justin Nuger | UCSC

Florian Schäfer | University of Stuttgart

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The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 21st and 22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Stuttgart. The contributions provide insightful discussions of several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of contemporary and historical Germanic languages. The theoretical issues explored include: the left periphery, with a number of contributions touching on the pros and contras of cartographic accounts; different aspects of word order and how it arises from movement and clause structure; the interplay of thematic relations and case theory with the realization of DPs; and the treatment of finiteness and modal structures. This book is of interest to syntacticians working in a comparative perspective and to advanced undergraduates.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 141] 2009. xv, 395 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/la.141

Table of Contents

Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax

Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer | pp. vii–xvi

Part I. Cartography and the left periphery

On a (wh-)moved Topic in Italian, compared to Germanic

Anna Cardinaletti | pp. 3–40

C-agreement or something close to it: Some thoughts on the ‘alls-construction’

Michael T. Putnam and Marjo van Koppen | pp. 41–58

Uncharted territory? Towards a non-cartographic account of Germanic syntax

C. Jan-Wouter Zwart | pp. 59–84

Bootstrapping verb movement and the clausal architecture of German (and other languages)

Gisbert Fanselow | pp. 85–118

A conjunction conspiracy at the West Germanic left periphery

John R. te Velde | pp. 119–148

Part II. Word order and movement

Reconsidering odd coordination in German

Hironobu Kasai | pp. 151–170

The syntax and semantics of the temporal anaphor “then” in Old and Middle English

Carola Trips and Eric Fuß | pp. 171–196

Jespersen’s Cycle and the issue of prosodic ‘weakness’

Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna | pp. 197–218

Holmberg’s Generalization: Blocking and push up

Hans Broekhuis | pp. 219–246

Part III. Thematic relations and NP realization

The No Case Generalization

Halldór Ármann Sigur∂sson | pp. 249–280

The new impersonal as a true passive

Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson | pp. 281–306

Anaphoric distribution in the prepositional phrase: Similarities between Norwegian and English

Jenny Lederer | pp. 307–324

Part IV. Finiteness and modality

Experiencers with (un)willingness: A raising analysis of German ‘Wollen’

Remus Gergel and Jutta M. Hartmann | pp. 327–356

Finiteness: The haves and the have-nots

Kristin Melum Eide | pp. 357–390

Index of subjects & languages | pp. 391–395

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