Verb Doubling and Dummy Verb : : Gap Avoidance Strategies in Verbal Fronting / / Johannes Hein.

This monograph provides the first cross-linguistic study of repair strategies in verbal fronting, verb doubling and do-support, addressing both typological properties and theoretical aspects. First, it brings together data hitherto scattered across the empirical and theoretical literature and adds n...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten , 574
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 511 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction and overview
  • Part I: Verbal fronting: Typology and theory
  • 1. Properties of verbal fronting
  • 2. Patterns in verbal fronting
  • 3. Previous approaches
  • 4. An analysis in terms of order of operations
  • 5. Predictions and further issues
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Part II: Language data
  • 7. Languages with only one kind of verbal fronting
  • 8. Languages with both kinds of verbal fronting
  • Bibliography
  • Language Index