Format:
Online-Ressource (341 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction
Series Statement:
Linguistik aktuell v. 97
Content:
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 cla
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Description based upon print version of record
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Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; From Afrikaans to Zurich German; I. Studies on predication; The Nom/Acc alternation in Germanic; Shape conservation, Holmberg's generalization and predication; Quirky verb-second in Afrikaans; Nominal arguments and nominal predicates; II. Studies on the (pro)nominal system; Pronominal noun phrases, number specifications, and null nouns; Toward a syntactic theory of number neutralisation; Long relativization in Zurich German as resumptive prolepsis; III. Historical studies
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Auxiliary selection and counterfactuality in the history of English and GermanicThe loss of residual "head-final'' orders and remnant fronting in Late Middle English; Syntactic sources of word-formation processes; Index; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today;
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Electronic reproduction
Additional Edition:
9789027293169
Additional Edition:
Print version Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax : From Afrikaans to Zurich German
Language:
English
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