Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax

Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)

Editors

C. Jan-Wouter Zwart | University of Groningen

Werner Abraham | University of California Berkeley

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This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.
Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with emphasis on German/Dutch and Danish), displacement phenomena discussed in relation with richness of morphology (with special attention to English, German/Dutch, and Norwegian, as well as presenting more general discussion of the issue), language variation and change (studying historical English syntax and Frisian contact dialects), and the syntax-semantics interface viewed from a Germanic perspective (addressing ellipsis, reflexivity, and the behavior of quantifiers).

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 53] 2002. xiv, 407 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.53

Table of Contents

Introduction

C. Jan-Wouter Zwart | p. vii

List of contributors | p. xiii

Subordination

Wh-movement and integrated parenthetical constructions

Marga Reis | pp. 3–40

Van as a marker of dissociation: Microvariation in Dutch

Jeroen van Craenenbroeck | pp. 41–67

Expletive subjects in subject relative clauses

Line Mikkelsen | pp. 69–91

Syntactic versus semantic control

Susi Wurmbrand | pp. 93–127

Movement and Morphology

Parametric variation and scrambling in English

Roland Hinterhölzl | pp. 131–150

V2 and Holmberg’s Generalization

Øystein Nilsen | pp. 151–173

The distribution of declarative verb second in Germanic

Olaf Koeneman | pp. 175–201

A verb’s gotta do what a verb’s gotta do! On Scandinavian infinitivals and the AGR parameter

Øystein Alexander Vangsnes | pp. 203–217

On the correlation between morphology and syntax: The case of V-to-I

Artemis Alexiadou and Gisbert Fanselow | pp. 219–242

Language Variation and Change

Observations on the loss of Verb Second in the history of English

Eric Haeberli | pp. 245–272

A structure-based analysis of morphosyntactic regularities in language contact

Eric Hoekstra | pp. 273–286

Syntax and Semantics

Swiping in Germanic

Jason Merchant | pp. 289–315

The ambiguity of weak reflexive pronouns in English and German

Markus Steinbach | pp. 317–342

‘Binominal each-constructions’ (BECs) in German and English

Malte Zimmermann | pp. 343–371

References | pp. 373–392

Name index | pp. 393–397

Subject index | pp. 399–404

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