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The book focuses on the syntactic behavior of argument noun phrases depending on their discourse status. The main language of consideration is German, but it is shown that the observations can be carried over to other languages. The claim is that discourse-new arguments remain inside the VP where th...

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1. Verfasser: Meinunger, André
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2000.
Schriftenreihe:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 38.
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Zusammenfassung:The book focuses on the syntactic behavior of argument noun phrases depending on their discourse status. The main language of consideration is German, but it is shown that the observations can be carried over to other languages. The claim is that discourse-new arguments remain inside the VP where they are base generated. The hierarchy of argument projection is claimed to be fix within and across languages. With the major attention to direct objects it is then argued that discourse-old, here called topical noun phrases undergo raising to agreement projections. This movement can be realized diff.
Beschreibung:Revision of the author's thesis (Discourse dependent DP (de- )placement), 1994/1995.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 245 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and indexes.
ISBN:9789027299185
9027299188
9781556199899
1556199899
1282163388
9781282163386

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