Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Comparative syntax: Focus on one language
5. Labeling (Romance) causatives 13
6. Quantifier float and predicate inversion 47
7. Beyond narrative: On the syntax and semantics of ly-Adverbs 57
8. Ellipsis, polarity, and the cartography of verb-initial orders in Irish 99
9. Negation and modality: On negative purposive and “avertive” complementizers 153
10. Are doubly-filled comps governed by prosody in Swiss German? The chameleonic nature of dass ‘that’ 185
11. Presentatives and the syntactic encoding of contextual information 221
12. Part II: Comparative syntax: Cross-linguistic studies
13. On reflexives with an object in French, German, and Gungbe 259
14. A micro-parameter for allocutive agreement 283
15. Apposition in English and French 299
16. Locality and the functional sequence in the left periphery 319
17. Wh in situ and criterial freezing 349
18. Germanic verb particle variation 371
19. Part III: Comparative syntax: Language acquisition and change
20. The loss of Latin OV: Steps towards an analysis 401
21. Medial NP-adjuncts in English: A diachronic perspective 447
22. Gothic sai and the Proto-Germanic verb-based discourse particle *se 477
23. The 3SGS morpheme in child and adult English: A formal analysis 499
24. Index 529