Advances in comparative Germanic syntax
By: edited by Artemis Alexiadou ... [et al.].
Contributors: Alexiadou, Artemis.
Series: Linguistik aktuell = -- Linguistics today -- v. 141
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9789027255242
Subjects: Germanic languages -- Grammar, Comparative; Germanic languages -- Syntax
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Advances in comparative Germanic syntax / Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger & Florian Schäfer; title: Part I. Cartography and the left periphery: On a (wh-)moved Topic in Italian, compared to Germanic / Anna Cardinaletti; title: C-agreement or something close to it: Some thoughts on the 'alls-construction' / Michael T. Putnam & Marjo van Koppen; title: Uncharted territory?: Towards a non-cartographic account of Germanic syntax / Jan-Wouter Zwart; title: Bootstrapping verb movement and the clausal architecture of German (and other languages) / Gisbert Fanselow; title: A conjunction conspiracy at the west Germanic left periphery / John R. te Velde; title: Part II. Word order and movement: Reconsidering odd coordination in German / Hironobu Kasai; title: The syntax and semantics of the temporal anaphor 'then' in Old and Middle English / Carola Trips & Eric Fuss; title: Jespersen's Cycle and the issue of prosodic 'weakness' / Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna; title: Holmberg's Generalization: Blocking and push up / Hans Broekhuis; title: Part III. Thematic relations and NP realization: The no case generalization / Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson; title: The new impersonal as a true passive / Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson; title: Anaphoric distribution in the prepositional phrase: Similarities between Norwegian and English / Jenny Lederer; title: Part IV. Finiteness and modality: Experiencers with (Un)willingness: A raising analysis of German 'Wollen' / Remus Gergel & Jutta M. Hartmann; title: Finiteness: The haves and the have-nots / Kristin M. Eide.