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In recent years, numerous important innovations in generative grammar have originated within the field of Germanic syntax. The 13 comparative studies in this volume aim to demonstrate how much the field has grown both in quantity and quality within the last decade. The topics investigated include the phrase structure of clauses and nominal phrases, morphological and abstract case, binding, and different types of movement (verb movement, scrambling, object shift, extraposition, and topicalization). The studies often cut across the division between Germanic SVO languages and Germanic SOV languages, thus opening new perspectives on the field, and non-Germanic languages such as Bengali and Italian are also included in the discussion.

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Author:   H. Haider ,  S. Olsen ,  S. Vikner
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1995 ed.
Volume:   31
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.490kg
ISBN:  

9780792332800

ISBN 10:   0792332806
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   30 June 1995
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

On the Origin of Sentential Arguments in German and Bengali.- A Unified Structural Representation of (Abstract) Case and Article. Evidence from Germanic.- Preposition Stranding and Resumptivity in West Germanic.- To Have to Be Dative.- Case and Scrambling: D-structure versus S-structure.- Agreement and Verb Morphology in Three Varieties of English.- Structural Case, Specifier-Head Relations, and the Case of Predicate NPs.- Crossover Effects, Chain Formation, and Unambiguous Binding.- Complex Predicates in Dutch and English.- Pronouns, Anaphors and Case.- Object Movement and Verb Movement in Early Modern English.- Cross-Dialectal Variation in Swiss German: Doubling Verbs, Verb Projection Raising, Barrierhood, and LF Movement.- On Agreement and Nominative Objects in Icelandic.- List of Contributors.- Language Index.- Name Index.

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