Narrow syntax and phonological form scrambling in the Germanic languages - Chocano, Gema (J. Benjamins, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1: SCRAMBLING: A CROSSLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE; CHAPTER 2: A SURVEY OF SOME BASIC PROPERTIES OF GERMAN; CHAPTER 3: SCRAMBLING IN GERMAN; CHAPTER 4: PREVIOUS ACCOUNTS OF GERMAN SCRAMBLING; CHAPTER 5: THE PHONOLOGICAL SIDE OF REORDERING PROCESSES; CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSIONS, PROBLEMS, AND PENDING ISSUES; NOTES; REFERENCES; SUBJECT INDEX; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
'Scrambling', the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic 'Object Shift'. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. Given that its main conclusions are drawn from German data, it also sheds light on several problematic aspects of the grammar of this language, which have traditionally resisted a principled account. Prominent among these are: the inconsistent behaviour of German coherent infinitives with respect t