Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors’ addresses vii
4. Introduction ix
5. German clause structure under discourse functional weight 1
6. On the co-occurrence of expletives and definite subjects in Germanic 45
7. Reconsidering identificational focus 65
8. Decomposing existence 85
9. Polarity items in English and Danish 127
10. The argument-time structure of recipient constructions in German 141
11. Scrambling and reference in German 179
12. Attributive adjectives in Germanic and Romance 193
13. Die Negationsklammer im Afrikaans 223
14. On the syntax and semantics of verb-complement constructions that involve ‘creation’ 263
15. Wh -expletives and partial wh -movement 285
16. Phases in the derivation of elliptical coordinate constructions in Germanic 307
17. Index 331