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Issues in formal German(ic) typology / edited by Werner Abraham, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 45.
- Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 45 = Linguistik aktuell
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germanic languages--Grammar.
- Germanic languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Issues in formal Germanic typology
- Issues in formal German typology
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles, V-2 and V-last, need to integrate discourse functions like thema and rhema into the grammatical description. This is attempted, in terms of Minimalism, thus extending the functional domain.
- Contents:
- Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Contributors' addresses
- Introduction
- German clause structure under discourse functional weight
- On the co-occurrence of expletives and definite subjects in Germanic
- Reconsidering identificational focus
- Decomposing existence
- Polarity items in English and Danish
- The argument-time structure of recipient constructions in German
- Attributive adjectives in Germanic and Romance
- Die Negationsklammer im Afrikaans
- On the syntax and semantics of verb-complement constructions that involve 'creation'
- Wh-expletives and partial wh-movement
- Phases in the derivation of elliptical coordinate constructions in Germanic
- Index
- Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612162039
- 9781282162037
- 1282162039
- 9789027297600
- 9027297606
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