Morphology-driven syntax: a theory of V to I raising and pro-drop
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1. Verfasser: Rohrbacher, Bernhard Wolfgang (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. ©1999
Schriftenreihe:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 15
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Beschreibung:A revised and expanded version of the author's 1994 University of Massachusetts at Amherst Ph. D. dissertation: The Germanic VO languages and the full paradigm : A theory of V to I raising
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-289) and index
MORPHOLOGY-DRIVEN SYNTAX; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; CHAPTER 2. Verb Movement in the Germanic Languages; CHAPTER 3. Agreement Morphology in the Syntax and the Lexicon; CHAPTER 4. Diachronic Germanic Syntax and the Full Paradigm; CHAPTER 5. Beyond Verb Movement in the Germanic VO Languages; CHAPTER 6. Conclusions; Bibliography; Subject Index; LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY.
This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive expletive constructions and object shift) and other language families (Romance, Semitic and Slavic) are discussed. A common explanation for all of the discussed phenomena is proposed: If and only if the features for "person" are distinctively marked by the agreement morphology, the agreement affixes are li
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 296 pages)
ISBN:1556192347
9027227365
9027299293
9781556192340
9789027299291

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