Infinitival syntax: infinitivus pro participio as a repair strategy
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Main Author: Schmid, Tanja (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. ©2005
Series:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 79
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Infinitival Syntax; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of constraints; 1. Introduction; 2. Infinitive or past participle; 3. The verb order; 4. Main features of previous analyses of the IPP; 5. Introduction to Optimality Theory (OT); 6. A case study of German I: Obligatory versus impossible IPP; 7. A case study of German II: The verb order; 8. Optional IPP in German; 9. Parameterisation in OT: The other languages; 10. Conclusion; References; Index; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
This monograph offers a new analysis of West Germanic 'Infinitivus Pro Participio' (IPP) constructions, within the framework of Optimality Theory. IPP constructions have long been problematic for syntactic theory, because a bare infinitive is preferred over the expected past participle. The book shows how the substitution of the past participle by the infinitive in IPP constructions can be captured straightforwardly if constraints are assumed to be violable. The basic idea is that IPP constructions are exceptional because they violate otherwise valid rules of the language. Thus, IPP is a 'last
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 251 pages)
ISBN:9027228035
9027294216
9789027228031
9789027294210

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