Issues In Germanic Syntax

Author : Werner Abraham,Wim Kosmeijer,Erich Reuland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 409 pages
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Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110847277

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Issues in Germanic Syntax by Werner Abraham,Wim Kosmeijer,Erich Reuland Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : W. Abraham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:643297237

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Issues in Germanic Syntax by W. Abraham Pdf

Author : C. Jan-Wouter Zwart,Werner Abraham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296924

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Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax by C. Jan-Wouter Zwart,Werner Abraham Pdf

This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages. Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with emphasis on German/Dutch and Danish), displacement phenomena discussed in relation with richness of morphology (with special attention to English, German/Dutch, and Norwegian, as well as presenting more general discussion of the issue), language variation and change (studying historical English syntax and Frisian contact dialects), and the syntax-semantics interface viewed from a Germanic perspective (addressing ellipsis, reflexivity, and the behavior of quantifiers).

Author : Peter Ackema
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255747

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Comparative Germanic Syntax by Peter Ackema Pdf

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of Germanic languages. Among the theoretical and empirical issues explored are various ellipsis phenomena, the internal structure of the DP, the syntax-morphology interface, the syntax-semantics interface, Binding Theory, various diachronic developments, and 'do-support'-type phenomena. This book is of interest to syntacticians with an interest in theoretical, comparative and/or diachronic work, as well as to morphologists and semanticists interested in the connections their fields have with syntax. It will also be of interest to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in linguistic disciplines.

Author : Artemis Alexiadou,Jorge Hankamer,Thomas McFadden,Justin Nuger,Florian Schäfer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289575

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Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax by Artemis Alexiadou,Jorge Hankamer,Thomas McFadden,Justin Nuger,Florian Schäfer Pdf

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.

Author : Jutta M. Hartmann,László Molnárfi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293169

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Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax by Jutta M. Hartmann,László Molnárfi Pdf

This selection of papers presented at the 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop brings together contributions that address issues in syntactic predication and studies in the nominal system, as well as papers on data from the history of English and German. Showing a strong comparative commitment, the contributions include studies on previously neglected data on case and predicative structures in Icelandic and other Germanic languages, on the (non-)syntactic distinction of predicative vs. argument NP/DPs, on quirky V2 in Afrikaans, the pronominal system, resumptive pronouns with relative clauses in Zurich German, as well as historical papers on word-formation processes, on auxiliary selection in relation to counter factuality, and on the development of VO-OV orders in the history of English. This volume presents a wide range of studies that enrich both the theoretical understanding and the empirical foundation of comparative research on the Germanic languages.

Author : H. Haider,S. Olsen,S. Vikner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401584166

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Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax by H. Haider,S. Olsen,S. Vikner Pdf

o. COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX This volume contains 13 papers that were prepared for the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanie Syntax at the University of Stuttgart in November 1991. In defining the theme both of the workshop and of this volume, we have taken "comparative" in "comparative Germanic syntax" to mean that at least two languages should be analyzed and "Germanic" to mean that at least one of these languages should be Germanic. There was no require ment as such that the research presented should be situated within the framework known as Principles and Parameters Theory (previously known as Government and Binding Theory), though it probably is no accident that this nevertheless turned out to be the case. Within this theory, it is seen as highly desirable to be able to account for several differences on the surface by deriving them from fewer under lying differences. The reason is that, in order to explain the ease with which children acquire language, it is assumed that not all knowledge of any given language is the result of learning, but that instead children already possess part of this knowledge at birth (the innate part of linguistic knowledge will obviously be the same for all human beings, and thus this theory also provides an explanation of language universals). The fewer "real" (i.e.

Author : Katrin Axel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291981

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Studies on Old High German Syntax by Katrin Axel Pdf

This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre-verb-second grammar by answering the following questions: To what extent did generalized verb movement exist in Old High German? Was there already obligatory XP-movement to the left periphery in declarative root clauses? What deviations from the linear verb-second restriction are attested and what do such phenomena reveal about the structure of the left sentence periphery? Did verb placement play the same role in sentence typing as in the modern verb-second languages? A further major topic is null subjects: It is claimed that Old High German was a partial pro-drop language. All these issues are addressed from a comparative-diachronic perspective by integrating research on other Old Germanic languages, in particular on Old English and Gothic. This book is of interest to all those working in the fields of comparative Germanic syntax and historical linguistics.

Author : Rosina L. Lippi-Green,Joseph C. Salmons
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276247

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Germanic Linguistics by Rosina L. Lippi-Green,Joseph C. Salmons Pdf

This volume contains ten revised and expanded papers selected from the dozens presented at the last Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, five contributions each from syntax (by Werner Abraham, Sarah Fagan, Isabella Barbier, John te Velde, and Ruth Lanouette) and historical linguistics (by Garry Davis and Gregory Iverson, Mary Niepokuj, Neil Jacobs, Edgar Polomé, and David Fertig). The authors start from current theoretical discussions in syntactic and diachronic research, using theory to address longstanding but still current problems in Germanic linguistics, from clitic placement and verb-second phenomena through the Verschärfung to the Twaddellian view of umlaut. Each contribution relies on careful sifting of data situated in the relevant comparative context, Germanic, Indo-European and cross-linguistic.

Author : Susanne Wurmbrand,Johannes Mursell,Katharina Hartmann
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110764628

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Handbook of the Syntax of Germanic Languages by Susanne Wurmbrand,Johannes Mursell,Katharina Hartmann Pdf

The handbook aims to provide an empirically well-founded overview and reference source for selected broad topics in Germanic syntax. The goal is to create a strongly comparative volume which provides empirical depth of select general phenomena in different Germanic languages, as well as informed theoretical comparisons, synthesizing the empirical findings.

Author : Hubert Haider,Höskuldur Thräinsson,Susan Olsen,Sten Vikner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780792342151

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Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax by Hubert Haider,Höskuldur Thräinsson,Susan Olsen,Sten Vikner Pdf

Comparative synchronic and diachronic syntax has become an increasingly popular and fruitful research area over the past 10-15 years. In the present volume, which complements Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax, contributors examine topics such as case marking, the typology of pronouns and anaphors, agreement, verb movement, verb morphology, object shift (object movement) and scrambling, using data drawn from numerous Germanic languages, past and present, as well as non-Germanic languages. The papers also investigate topics not central to Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax, such as clitics, the functional structure of older Germanic languages, the nature of tense, prepositional case marking, and Germanic verb-second phenomena. Perhaps one of the main differences is that the present volume reflects a more prominent role for historical and diachronic syntax. In addition, many of the papers in the present volume are heavily influenced by the recent introduction of the Minimalist Program which post-dates the original Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax.

Author : Kate Burridge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277022

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Syntactic Change in Germanic by Kate Burridge Pdf

This study examines certain features of Dutch syntax between approximately 1300 and 1650. Of central importance are the overall developments in the word order patterning and the various changes they entail elsewhere in the grammar, such as in the negative construction. After an introductory chapter providing goals and background for the study, the quantitative analysis of the data is presented in Chapter 2. Considerable attention is paid to contextual considerations and the pragmatic aspect of word order. Chapter 3 deals specifically with the question of exbraciation; Chapter 4 returns to the functional aspect of word order and discusses the importance of the notion 'topic'. Chapter 5 provides a detailed analysis of the development of negation supported by comparative data from related Germanic languages and in a wider context of overall typological change. The concluding chapter discusses possible explanations of the findings. Two Appendices are added to the book, one providing a sketch grammar of Dutch, the other an annotated list of the corpus used. This study is purposefully eclectic in its approach, drawing upon many different traditions and areas in linguistics. This multifaceted approach is a major strength of the book, which moreover makes an important contribution to theoretical issues by presenting a vast descriptive data base for Dutch.

Author : Werner Abraham,Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110914726

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German: Syntactic Problems – Problematic Syntax by Werner Abraham,Elly van Gelderen Pdf

The volume assembles eleven articles presenting a linguistic approach to the grammar of German, English and the diachronic forerunners of English. Common to all is a theoretical discussion against the background of Chomskyan minimalism (1993) and more recent developments of it (Kayne 1993, Chomsky 1995), all of which make language typology comparisons an interesting proposition. Some of the articles are critical of certain aspects of these theoretical approaches. For all their claims to descriptive universality, it transpires that they fail to address a number of features specific to German.

Author : W. Detmar Meurers,Tibor Kiss
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1575863030

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Constraint-based Approaches to Germanic Syntax by W. Detmar Meurers,Tibor Kiss Pdf

A wealth of research has been conducted on the various linguistic phenomena found in Germanic languages. But these studies were restricted by their use of only one theoretical perspective to analyze one particular language. Inspired by the need to expand the research base of Germanic languages while broadening the empirical coverage of constraint-based linguistic approaches, a handful of researchers are employing various constraint-based theoretical perspectives to study multiple Germanic languages. This volume begins with an introduction to the recent research performed on Germanic syntax using constraint-based frameworks. It then goes on to investigate the linguistic phenomena found in the grammar of the German and Danish languages. Using such approaches as Lexical-Functional Grammar and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, contributors shed a different light on theoretical issues addressed by past studies, including semi-free word order, partial front phenomena, and complex predicate formation. While alternative approaches have assumed that meaning (semantics) is dependent on form (syntax), various analyses presented in this volume explore the idea that both form and meaning are equally constitutive for grammatical descriptions.

Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104086

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Germanic syntax by Stefan Müller Pdf

This book is an introduction to the syntactic structures that can be found in the Germanic languages. The analyses are couched in the framework of HPSG light, which is a simplified version of HPSG that uses trees to depict analyses rather than complicated attribute value matrices. The book is written for students with basic knowledge about case, constituent tests, and simple phrase structure grammars (advanced BA or MA level) and for researchers with an interest in the Germanic languages and/or an interest in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar/Sign-Based Construction Grammar without having the time to deal with all the details of these theories.