Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms: Syntactic properties and interpretative effects
Edited by Werner Frey, André Meinunger and Kerstin Schwabe
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 232] 2016. v, 278 pp.
Werner Frey
List of John Benjamins publications for which Werner Frey plays a role.
Title
Subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 Chapter 3. Types of German causal clauses and their syntactic-semantic layers Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Constanze Fleczoreck (eds.), pp. 51–100 | Chapter
This chapter aims to discuss some distinguishing syntactic and interpretative properties of German causal weil-clauses, da-clauses and verb-first causal clauses. The chapter argues that these different properties can be fruitfully analysed in Krifka’s (2018, to appear) system of decomposition of… read more
2016 On properties differentiating constructions with inner-sentential pro-forms for clauses Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms: Syntactic properties and interpretative effects, Frey, Werner, André Meinunger and Kerstin Schwabe (eds.), pp. 73–104 | Article
The paper discusses various syntactic properties of different constructions featuring a dependent clause associated with a pro-form. The paper adopts the thesis of Pütz (19862) and Sudhoff (2003) that the pro-form construction with verbs of the class to which bedauern (‘to regret’) belongs and the… read more
2016 Sentential proforms: An overview Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms: Syntactic properties and interpretative effects, Frey, Werner, André Meinunger and Kerstin Schwabe (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article
2012 On two types of adverbial clauses allowing root-phenomena Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons, Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye (eds.), pp. 405–430 | Article
Peripheral adverbial clauses show many differences from central adverbial clauses, one being that they allow certain root-phenomena, whereas central adverbial clauses do not allow any. A third class of adverbial clauses has to be distinguished, which in German contains continuative w-relatives and… read more