The base structure of the German clause under discourse functional weight: contentful functional categories vs. derivative functional categories

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction I
5. Minimalism: Why it is not 'the end of syntax' 3
6. The base structure of the German clause under discourse functional weight: contentful functional categories vs. derivative functional categories 11
7. Word order in English: old problems and new answers 43
8. Inflection and movement in Old English 71
9. Projective Economy 83
10. Transitive expletive constructions and the evidence supporting the Multiple Specifier Hypothesis 105
11. Introduction II
12. The Minimalist Program 137
13. Toward a uniform account of scrambling and clitic doubling 143
14. Pronouns and the left periphery of West Germanic embedded clauses 163
15. Agreement and case matching in noun phrases in German 191
16. Deriving conjoined XPs: a minimal deletion approach 231
17. Introduction III
18. Word order and language acquisition – Kayne’s universal directionality restriction 263
19. The Initial Hypothesis of syntax: A Minimalist perspective on language acquisition and attrition 269
20. The acquisition of German and the “Initial Hypothesis of Syntax”: A reply to Platzack 307
21. Addresses of authors 319
22. General index of subjects 321