Comparative Germanic Syntax
The state of the art
Editors
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.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 191] 2012. xvi, 418 pp.
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Table of Contents
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List of contributors | pp. vii–viii
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Comparative Germanic Syntax: The State of the Art | pp. ix–xvi
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Modal complement ellipsis: VP ellipsis in Dutch?Lobke Aelbrecht | pp. 1–34
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On the adverbial reading of infrequency adjectives and the structure of the DPArtemis Alexiadou and Cinzia Campanini | pp. 35–66
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Crossing the lake: Motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss GermanEllen Brandner and Martin Salzmann | pp. 67–98
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Preposition-determiner amalgams in German and French at the syntax-morphology interfacePatricia Cabredo Hofherr | pp. 99–132
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Conditional clauses, Main Clause Phenomena and the syntax of polarity emphasisLieven Danckaert and Liliane Haegeman | pp. 133–168
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Cross-Germanic variation in binding Condition BGlyn Hicks | pp. 169–198
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Development of sentential negation in the history of GermanAgnes Jäger and Doris Penka | pp. 199–222
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Contact, animacy, and affectedness in GermanicBjörn Lundquist and Gillian Ramchand | pp. 223–248
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Syntactic change in progress: The Icelandic “New Construction” as an active impersonalJoan Maling and Sigriđur Sigurjónsdóttir | pp. 249–278
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Cross Germanic variation in the realm of support verbsChrister Platzack | pp. 279–310
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The shift to strict VO in English at the PF-interfaceAgnieszka Pysz and Bartosz Wiland | pp. 311–352
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Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in Across The Board by means of asymmetric extraction + ellipsisMartin Salzmann | pp. 353–386
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A morphologically guided matching approach to German(ic) relative constructionsVolker Struckmeier | pp. 387–414
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Index | pp. 415–418
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2AC: Linguistics/Germanic & Scandinavian languages
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General