Crossing boundaries : advances in the theory of Central and Eastern European languages / edited by István Kenesei, with the assistance of Tibor Szécsényi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kenesei, István.

Szécsényi, Tibor.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory Series IV, 182

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 182

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory ; 182

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavic languages.

Europe, Eastern--Languages.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Central--Languages.

Europe, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book contains eleven articles on theoretical problems in Albanian, Hungarian, Polish, (Old) Russian, Romanian, and the South Slavic languages of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian. They cover topics such as clitics, head and phrasal movement, the structure of the DP, and clause structure. A number of papers refer to and make systematic comparisons with languages outside the region, including Breton, German, Hebrew, and Welsh. Since the papers were selected from an international conference in Spring 1998 in Szeged, Hungary, they represent the crossing of boundaries in thre

Contents:

CROSSING BOUNDARIES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CLITIC, HEAD AND PHRASAL MOVEMENT; CLITICIZATION AND CLITICHOOD; EVENTIVE TO AND THE PLACEMENT OF CLITICS IN SERBO-CROATIAN; THE STRUCTURE OF OLD RUSSIAN PERIPHRASTIC VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS; STYLISTIC VERB MOVEMENT IN YES-NO QUESTIONS IN BULGARIAN AND BRETON*; STRATEGIES OF COMPLEX PREDICATE FORMATION AND THE HUNGARIAN VERBAL COMPLEX; HUNGARIAN COMPLEX VERBS AND XP-MOVEMENT; DP STRUCTURE

ON THE STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION OF POSSESSION AND AGREEMENT* THE CASE OF (ANTI-)AGREEMENT IN HUNGARIAN POSSESSED NOMINAL PHRASESON THE SYNTAX OF THE GENITIVE IN NOMINALS: THE CASE OF POLISH; ASPECT AND NOMINALIZATIONS* THE CASE OF ROMANIAN; CLAUSAL STRUCTURE; NON-ACTIVE MORPHOLOGY IN ALBANIAN AND EVENT (DE)COMPOSITION*; AUTHOR INDEX; INDEXOF LANGUAGES; SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-12172-7

9786613121721

90-272-8461-X

OCLC:

727950361