Narrow syntax and phonological form :: scrambling in the Germanic languages /

'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 ph...

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Main Author: Chocano, Gema
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2007.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 109.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:'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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 333 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027292636
9027292639
902723373X
9789027233738
1282154753
9781282154759
9786612154751
6612154756
ISSN:0166-0829 ;

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