German: Syntactic Problems – Problematic Syntax / / ed. by Werner Abraham, Elly van Gelderen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Abraham, Werner,; Alexiadou, Artemis,; Anagnostopoulou, Elena,; Czepluch, Hartmut,; Gelderen, Elly van,; Grohmann, Kleanthes Kostas,; Haider, Hubert,; Mallen, Enrique,; Platzack, Christer,; Sprouse, Rex A.,; Velde, John R. te,; Zwart, Jan-Wouter,
• HerausgeberIn: Abraham, Werner,; Gelderen, Elly van,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: Reprint 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten , 374
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 323 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.

Das Buch umfaßt elf Beiträge zur linguistischen Grammatik des Deutschen, des Englischen und der diachronischen Vorstufen des Englischen. Theoriehintergrund ist der Minimalismus von Chomsky (1993) sowie Weiterentwicklungen (Kayne 1993, Chomsky 1995), die allesamt sprachtypologische Vergleiche interessant machen. Ein Teil der Arbeiten ist kritisch gegenüber Teilen der Theorieansätze, die bei Universalanspruch der Beschreibung die besondere Faktenlage des Deutschen nicht berücksichtigen und ihr nicht gerecht werden können.

The volume assembles eleven articles presenting a linguistic approach to the grammar of German, English and the diachronic forerunners of English. Common to all is a theoretical discussion against the background of Chomskyan minimalism (1993) and more recent developments of it (Kayne 1993, Chomsky 1995), all of which make language typology comparisons an interesting proposition. Some of the articles are critical of certain aspects of these theoretical approaches. For all their claims to descriptive universality, it transpires that they fail to address a number of features specific to German.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction I -- Minimalism: Why it is not 'the end of syntax' -- The base structure of the German clause under discourse functional weight: contentful functional categories vs. derivative functional categories -- Word order in English: old problems and new answers -- Inflection and movement in Old English -- Projective Economy -- Transitive expletive constructions and the evidence supporting the Multiple Specifier Hypothesis -- Introduction II -- The Minimalist Program -- Toward a uniform account of scrambling and clitic doubling -- Pronouns and the left periphery of West Germanic embedded clauses -- Agreement and case matching in noun phrases in German -- Deriving conjoined XPs: a minimal deletion approach -- Introduction III -- Word order and language acquisition – Kayne’s universal directionality restriction -- The Initial Hypothesis of syntax: A Minimalist perspective on language acquisition and attrition -- The acquisition of German and the “Initial Hypothesis of Syntax”: A reply to Platzack -- Addresses of authors -- General index of subjects