Issues in formal German(ic) typology (J. Benjamins, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note: Contributors' addresses vii -- Introduction IX -- Werner Abraham -- German clause structure under discourse functional weight: -- Focus and antifocus -- Werner Abraham and Ldszl6 Molndrfi -- On the co-occurrence of expletives and definite subjects in Germanic 45 -- Cedric Boeckx -- Reconsidering identificational focus 65 -- Jocelyn Cohan -- Decomposing existence: Evidence from Germanic 85 -- Christine Czinglar -- Polarity items in English and Danish 127 -- Britta Jensen -- The argument-time structure of recipient constructions in German 141 -- Wolfgang Klein -- Scrambling and reference in German 179 -- Jiirgen Lenerz -- Attributive adjectives in Germanic and Romance 193 -- Enrique Mallen -- Die Negationsklammer im Afrikaans-Mehrfachnegation -- aus formaler und funktionaler Sicht 223 -- Ldszl6 Molndrfi -- On the syntax and semantics of verb-complement constructions -- that involve 'creation': A comparative -- study in Greek and German 263 -- Athina Sioupi -- Wh-expletives and partial wh-movement: Two non-existing concepts? 285 -- Wolfgang Sternefeld -- Phases in the derivation of elliptical coordinate constructions -- in Germanic 307 -- John te Velde -- Index 331