German: Syntactic Problems – Problematic Syntax

Published by De Gruyter 1997

German: Syntactic Problems – Problematic Syntax

Edited by: Werner Abraham and Elly van Gelderen

Volume 374 in the series Linguistische Arbeiten

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110914726

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Introduction I
Minimalism: Why it is not 'the end of syntax' Werner Abraham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
The base structure of the German clause under discourse functional weight: contentful functional categories vs. derivative functional categories Werner Abraham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Word order in English: old problems and new answers Hartmut Czepluch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Inflection and movement in Old English Elly van Gelderen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Projective Economy On the minimal functional structure of the German clause Hubert Haider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Transitive expletive constructions and the evidence supporting the Multiple Specifier Hypothesis Jan-Wouter Zwart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Introduction II
The Minimalist Program Elly van Gelderen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Toward a uniform account of scrambling and clitic doubling Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Pronouns and the left periphery of West Germanic embedded clauses Kleanthes Kostas Grohmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Agreement and case matching in noun phrases in German Enrique Mallen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Deriving conjoined XPs: a minimal deletion approach John R. te Velde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Introduction III
Word order and language acquisition – Kayne’s universal directionality restriction Werner Abraham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
The Initial Hypothesis of syntax: A Minimalist perspective on language acquisition and attrition Christer Platzack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
The acquisition of German and the “Initial Hypothesis of Syntax”: A reply to Platzack Rex A. Sprouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Addresses of authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
General index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: Reprint 2017
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 323
Illustrations
- Other: Zahlr. Abb.
Keywords: Deutsch; Syntax; Englisch

eBook

Published: October 10, 2017
ISBN: 9783110914726

Hardcover

Published: December 16, 1997
ISBN: 9783484303744