Advances in comparative Germanic syntax (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Advances in comparative Germanic syntax / Artemis Alexiadou [and others] -- Cartography and the left periphery -- On a (wh- )moved Topic in Italian, compared to Germanic / Anna Cardinaletti -- C-agreement or something close to it : some thoughts on the 'alls-construction' / Michael T. Putnam & Marjo van Koppen -- Uncharted territory? : towards a non-cartographic account of Germanic syntax / Jan-Wouter Zwart -- Bootstrapping verb movement and the clausal architecture of German (and other languages) / Gisbert Fanselow -- A conjunction conspiracy at the west Germanic left periphery / John R. te Velde -- Word order and movement -- Reconsidering odd coordination in German / Hironobu Kasai -- The syntax and semantics of the temporal anaphor "then" in Old and Middle English / Carola Trips & Eric Fuß -- Jespersen's Cycle and the issue of prosodic 'weakness' / Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna -- Holmberg's Generalization : blocking and push up / Hans Broekhuis -- Thematic relations and NP realization -- The no case generalization / Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson -- The new impersonal as a true passive / Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson -- Anaphoric distribution in the prepositional phrase : similarities between Norwegian and English / Jenny Lederer -- Finiteness and modality -- Experiencers with (un)willingness : a raising analysis of German 'wollen' / Remus Gergel & Jutta M. Hartmann -- Finiteness : the haves and the have-nots / Kristin M. Eide
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