German: Syntactic Problems – Problematic Syntax /

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

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 interes...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 323 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.
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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

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