Quantitative Approaches to Grammar and Grammatical Change : : Perspectives from Germanic / / ed. by Sam Featherston, Yannick Versley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bader, Markus,; Fanselow, Gisbert,; Gutscher, Marian,; Hartmann, Jutta,; Hofstetter, Stefan,; Häussler, Jana,; Konietzko, Andreas,; Radó, Janina,; Ruette, Tom,; Salzmann, Martin,; Speelman, Dirk,; Speyer, Augustin,; Stein, Achim,; Trips, Carola,; Volodina, Anna,; Weiß, Helmut,; Weskott, Thomas,; Winkler, Susanne,
• HerausgeberIn: Featherston, Sam,; Versley, Yannick,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 290
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 234 p.)

The newly-emerging field of theoretically informed but simultaneously empirically based syntax is dynamic but little-represented in the literature. This volume addresses this need. While there has previously been something of a gulf between theoretical linguists in the generative tradition and those...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Complex center embedding in German – The effect of sentence position
• Constituent order in German multiple questions: Normal order and (apparent) anti-superiority effects
• On the Limits of Non-Parallelism in ATB Movement: Experimental Evidence for Strict Syntactic Identity
• Measure Phrase Constructions in English, German, and French: The (Non-)Occurrence of Antonyms and Effects of Evaluativity
• Interpreting aggregated distances. The case of Old High German texts
• Relative Object Order in High and Low German
• Modeling language contact with diachronic crosslinguistic data
• Diachronic Development of Null Subjects in German
• What Determines ‘Freezing’ Effects in was-für Split Constructions?
• Index