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Issues in Germanic Syntax

Author : Werner Abraham
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110847272
Total Pages : 409 pages
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Download or read book Issues in Germanic Syntax written by Werner Abraham and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Issues in Germanic Syntax

Author : W. Abraham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Issues in Germanic Syntax written by W. Abraham and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax

Author : C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027296928
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax written by C. Jan-Wouter Zwart and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Comparative Germanic Syntax

Author : Peter Ackema
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255741
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Germanic Syntax written by Peter Ackema and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027289573
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax by : Artemis Alexiadou

Download or read book Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax

Author : Jutta M. Hartmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027293163
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax by : Jutta M. Hartmann

Download or read book Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax written by Jutta M. Hartmann and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Studies on Old High German Syntax

Author : Katrin Axel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027291985
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Studies on Old High German Syntax written by Katrin Axel and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax

Author : H. Haider
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401584168
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax written by H. Haider and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax

Author : Höskuldur Thräinsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402002946
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax by : Höskuldur Thräinsson

Download or read book Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax written by Höskuldur Thräinsson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O. THE CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME AND THE FIELD OF COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX Comparati ve synchronic and diachronic syntax has become an increasingly popular and fruitful research area over the past 10-15 years. A central reason for this is that recent developments in linguistic theory have made it possible to formulate explicit and testable hypotheses concerning syntactic universals and cross-linguistic varia- tion. Here we refer to the so-called "Principles-and-Parameters" approaches (see Chomsky 1981a, 1982, 1986a, and also Williams 1987, Freidin 1991, Chomsky and Lasnik 1993, and references cited in these works). It may even be fair to say that the Government-Binding framework (first outlined by Chomsky 1981b)-a spe- cific instantiation of the Principles-and-Parameters approach-has been more influential than any other theoretical syntactic framework. Since 1984, syntacticians investigating the formal properties of Germanic languages have, as an international effort, organized "workshops" on comparative Germanic syntax. The first was held at the University of Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway (1984), the second at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland (1985), the third at the University of Abo in Abo, Finland (1986), the fourth at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1987), the fifth in Groningen, The Nether- lands (1988), the sixth in Lund, Sweden (1989), the seventh in Stuttgart, Germany (1991), the eighth in Troms, Norway (1992), the ninth at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (1994), the tenth at the Catholic University in Brussels, Belgium (1995), and the eleventh at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA (1995).

Syntactic Change in Germanic

Author : Kate Burridge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027235899
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Syntactic Change in Germanic written by Kate Burridge and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Germanic Linguistics

Author : Rosina L. Lippi-Green
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027276242
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Germanic Linguistics by : Rosina L. Lippi-Green

Download or read book Germanic Linguistics written by Rosina L. Lippi-Green and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-10-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Handbook of the Syntax of Germanic Languages

Author : Susanne Wurmbrand
Publisher : de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110764628
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the Syntax of Germanic Languages written by Susanne Wurmbrand and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2024-08-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

German: Syntactic Problems – Problematic Syntax

Author : Werner Abraham
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110914727
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis German: Syntactic Problems – Problematic Syntax by : Werner Abraham

Download or read book German: Syntactic Problems – Problematic Syntax written by Werner Abraham and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Syntactic Change in Germanic

Author : Kate Burridge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027277028
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Syntactic Change in Germanic written by Kate Burridge and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Germanic syntax

Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961104085
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Germanic syntax written by Stefan Müller and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Constraint-based Approaches to Germanic Syntax

Author : W. Detmar Meurers
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
ISBN 13 : 9781575863030
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis Constraint-based Approaches to Germanic Syntax by : W. Detmar Meurers

Download or read book Constraint-based Approaches to Germanic Syntax written by W. Detmar Meurers and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

On Germanic Linguistics

Author : Irmengard Rauch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110856441
Total Pages : 429 pages
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Download or read book On Germanic Linguistics written by Irmengard Rauch and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.