Issues in formal German(ic) typology
By: edited by Werner Abraham, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart.
Contributors: Abraham, Werner.; Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter.
Series: Linguistics today,; v. 45 =; Linguistik aktuell; Linguistik aktuell ;; Bd. 45.
Publisher: J. Benjamins; John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Germanic languages -- Grammar.
Other titles: Issues in formal Germanic typology; Issues in formal German typology
Notes: Chiefly in English; includes one paper in German.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Contributors' addresses vii; title: Introduction IX; title: Werner Abraham; title: German clause structure under discourse functional weight:; title: Focus and antifocus; title: Werner Abraham and Ldszl6 Molndrfi; title: On the co-occurrence of expletives and definite subjects in Germanic 45; title: Cedric Boeckx; title: Reconsidering identificational focus 65; title: Jocelyn Cohan; title: Decomposing existence: Evidence from Germanic 85; title: Christine Czinglar; title: Polarity items in English and Danish 127; title: Britta Jensen; title: The argument-time structure of recipient constructions in German 141; title: Wolfgang Klein; title: Scrambling and reference in German 179; title: Jiirgen Lenerz; title: Attributive adjectives in Germanic and Romance 193; title: Enrique Mallen; title: Die Negationsklammer im Afrikaans-Mehrfachnegation; title: aus formaler und funktionaler Sicht 223; title: Ldszl6 Molndrfi; title: On the syntax and semantics of verb-complement constructions; title: that involve 'creation': A comparative; title: study in Greek and German 263; title: Athina Sioupi; title: Wh-expletives and partial wh-movement: Two non-existing concepts? 285; title: Wolfgang Sternefeld; title: Phases in the derivation of elliptical coordinate constructions; title: in Germanic 307; title: John te Velde; title: Index 331.