Advances in comparative Germanic syntax / edited by Artemis Alexiadou ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexiadou, Artemis.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 141.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 141

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic languages--Grammar, Comparative.

Germanic languages.

Germanic languages--Syntax.

Physical Description:

xv, 395 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 21st and 22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Stuttgart. The contributions provide insightful discussions of several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of contemporary and historical Germanic languages. The theoretical issues explored include: the left periphery, with a number of contributions touching on the pros and contras of cartographic accounts; different aspects of word order and how it arises from movement and clause structure; the interplay of thematic relations and case theory with the realization of DPs; and the treatment of finiteness and modal structures. This book is of interest to syntacticians working in a comparative perspective and to advanced undergraduates.

Contents:

Advances in comparative Germanic syntax / Artemis Alexiadou ... [et al.]

Cartography and the left periphery

On a (wh-)moved Topic in Italian, compared to Germanic / Anna Cardinaletti

C-agreement or something close to it : some thoughts on the 'alls-construction' / Michael T. Putnam & Marjo van Koppen

Uncharted territory? : towards a non-cartographic account of Germanic syntax / Jan-Wouter Zwart

Bootstrapping verb movement and the clausal architecture of German (and other languages) / Gisbert Fanselow

A conjunction conspiracy at the west Germanic left periphery / John R. te Velde

Word order and movement

Reconsidering odd coordination in German / Hironobu Kasai

The syntax and semantics of the temporal anaphor "then" in Old and Middle English / Carola Trips & Eric Fu€

Jespersen's Cycle and the issue of prosodic 'weakness' / Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna

Holmberg's Generalization : blocking and push up / Hans Broekhuis

Thematic relations and NP realization

The no case generalization / Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson

The new impersonal as a true passive / Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson

Anaphoric distribution in the prepositional phrase : similarities between Norwegian and English / Jenny Lederer

Finiteness and modality

Experiencers with (un)willingness : a raising analysis of German 'wollen' / Remus Gergel & Jutta M. Hartmann

Finiteness : the haves and the have-nots / Kristin M. Eide.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612104176

9781282104174

1282104179

9789027289575

9027289573