Comparative Germanic syntax : the state of the art / editors, Peter Ackema [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ackema, Peter, 1965-

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 191.

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ; v. 191

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic languages--Grammar, Comparative.

Germanic languages.

Germanic languages--Syntax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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 developmen

Contents:

Comparative Germanic Syntax; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; INTRODUCTION; Comparative Germanic Syntax; References; Modal complement ellipsis; 1. Introduction; 2. Dutch modal complement ellipsis (MCE); 2.1 Basic properties; 2.2 Dutch modals and their complements; 2.2.1 Modals are raising verbs; 2.2.2 Dutch modals are merged in V, not in T; 2.2.3 Dutch modals select a non-finite TP complement; 2.2.4 Summary; 2.3 Ellipsis: Deletion or proform?; 2.3.1 Objects cannot extract out of MCE; 2.3.2 Subjects can extract out of MCE; 2.4 Summary

3. Ellipsis is deletion; 4. The analysis of Dutch MCE; 4.1 The licensing head and the size of the ellipsis site; 4.2 The extraction data; 4.2.1 Wh-object extraction; 4.2.2 Object scrambling; 4.2.3 Subject extraction; 4.3 Summary; 5. English VP ellipsis; 5.1 The licensing head and the ellipsis site; 5.2 The extraction data; 6. Conclusions and Further research; References; On the adverbial reading of infrequency adjectives and the structure of the DP; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Occasional constructions in English; 1.2 Constraints on English OCs; 1.2.1 Types of Ds licensing the OC reading

1.2.2 Adjacency to D; 1.2.3 Impossibility of coordination; 1.2.4 Types of adjectives licensing the OC reading; 1.3 The peculiarity of OCs: the syntax-semantics mismatch; 1.4 A proposal for OCs: Complex quantifier formation and quantifier raising (QR); 1.5 The Inverse scope parameter; 1.6 Our contribution; 2. German OCs revisited; 3. OCs beyond Germanic: Greek and Italian; 3.1 Scope in Greek and Italian; 3.2 OCs in Greek; 3.3 Italian OCs; 3.3.1 Types of Ds licensing the OC reading; 3.3.2 Adjacency to D; 3.3.3 Impossibility of coordination; 3.3.4 Prenominal position of the adjective

3.4 The semantic properties of qualche; 3.5 Interim summary and questions to address; 4. Towards an analysis; 4.1 The structure of the DP; 4.2 The dual nature of qualche; 4.3 PlP and OCs across languages; 4.3.1 Complex quantifier formation in Italian; 4.3.2 Plural determiners in English; 4.3.3 Greek and German determiners; 4.4 OCs and the syntax of determiners across languages; 5. Summary and conclusions; References; Crossing the Lake; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Background: Verb doubling in Swiss German; 1.2 The element gi in Bodensee-Alemannic; 2. Shared properties; 2.1 Interpretive properties

2.2 The category of the infinitival complement; 2.3 Structural position of the gi/go-phrase; 2.4 Infinitival complements with 'zum:' A clausal complement; 2.5 The structure; 3. Differences between CH-Alemannic and DE-Alemannic; 3.1 No integration into the VR/VPR-system; 3.2 Reordering possibilities; 3.3 No verbal doubling in BA; 4. The historical development; 4.1 The prepositional origin of gi/go; 4.2 The emergence of verb doubling in Swiss German; 5. Accounting for the differences; 5.1 Gi in BA; 5.2 Go in CH; 6. Why is gi/go limited to alemannic varieties?; 6.1 Historical issues; 6.2 The case of West Flemish

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613884053

9781283571609

1283571609

9789027273642

9027273642

OCLC:

811490678