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Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax
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Edited by:
Artemis Alexiadou
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
About this book
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 21st and 22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Stuttgart. The contributions provide insightful discussions of several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of contemporary and historical Germanic languages. The theoretical issues explored include: the left periphery, with a number of contributions touching on the pros and contras of cartographic accounts; different aspects of word order and how it arises from movement and clause structure; the interplay of thematic relations and case theory with the realization of DPs; and the treatment of finiteness and modal structures. This book is of interest to syntacticians working in a comparative perspective and to advanced undergraduates.
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Table of contents
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Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax
vii - Part I. Cartography and the left periphery
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On a ( wh -)moved Topic in Italian, compared to Germanic
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C-agreement or something close to it
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Uncharted territory?
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Bootstrapping verb movement and the clausal architecture of German (and other languages)
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A conjunction conspiracy at the West Germanic left periphery
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Reconsidering odd coordination in German
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The syntax and semantics of the temporal anaphor “then” in Old and Middle English
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Jespersen’s Cycle and the issue of prosodic ‘weakness’
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Holmberg’s Generalization
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The No Case Generalization
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The new impersonal as a true passive
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Anaphoric distribution in the prepositional phrase
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Experiencers with (un)willingness
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Finiteness
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Index of subjects & languages
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April 27, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9789027289575
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395
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Keywords for this book
Syntax; Germanic linguistics; Theoretical linguistics; Generative linguistics
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Professional and scholarly;
