Issues in formal German(ic) typology

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This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles, V-2 and V-last, need to integrate discourse functions like thema and rhema into the grammatical description. This is attempted, in terms of Minimalism, thus extending the functional domain. Special a…

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Full title :Issues in formal German(ic) typology / edited by Werner Abraham, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart.

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Publication Date:©2002.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):J. Benjamins
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2002.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027297600, 9027297606, 1282162039, 9781282162037, 9786612162039, 6612162031
oclc:ocm70769030
LC Classification:PD101
Dewey Decimal:430/.045

Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors' addresses; Introduction; German clause structure under discourse functional weight; On the co-occurrence of expletives and definite subjects in Germanic; Reconsidering identificational focus; Decomposing existence; Polarity items in English and Danish; The argument-time structure of recipient constructions in German; Attributive adjectives in Germanic and Romance; Die Negationsklammer im Afrikaans; On the syntax and semantics of verb-complement constructions that involve 'creation'

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Deutsch FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- German Germaanse talen Germanic languages -- Grammar Germanische Sprachen Langues germaniques -- Grammaire Sprachtypologie Syntax Taaltypologie