Comparative studies in word order variation
להגדלת הטקסט להקטנת הטקסט- ספר
The present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of French/Romance and German/Germanic. It starts by asking: What do adverbs, pronouns and full noun phrases have in common? This question is tackled, on the one hand, from an empirical perspective by the description of relevant linguistic facts leading to significant and unexpected generalizations, and, on the other hand, from a theoretical perspective by the formalization of (i) a novel model of the Xbar-schema containing at most two Specifiers (double Spec model) and (ii) a well-defined model of Checking Theory, dist
כותר |
Comparative studies in word order variation : adverbs, pronouns, and clause structure in Romance and Germanic / Christopher Laenzlinger. |
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מוציא לאור |
Amsterdam Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co. |
שנה |
1998 |
הערות |
Revision of the author's thesis--University of Geneva, 1996. Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-361) and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
CONTENTS Foreword 1 Introduction 1.1 The empirical background 1.2 The theoretical background 1.3 Organization of the book 2 The Syntax of Adverbs 2.1 Towards a typology of adverbs 2.2 The distribution of adverbs 2.3 Towards a syntactic definition of adverbs 2.4 The semantics of adverbs 2.5 The syntax-semantics interface 2.6 The GB-based approaches 2.7 Adverb insertion and phrase structure 2.8 Extraposition in the right A-specifier 2.9 The licensing of adverb positioning 2.10 Adverb hierarchy and clause structure 2.11 The linear placement of adverbs 2.12 Conclusion 3 Pronouns 3.1 Object pronouns 3.2 Subject pronouns 4 The Structure of the German Clause 4.1 An overview of the German Mittelfeld 4.2 A survey of scrambling transformations 4.3 Scrambling and specificity 4.4 Scrambling and focus 4.5 Scrambling and adverb distribution 4.6 Speculations on V2 4.7 Conclusion 5 Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index |
סדרה |
Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 v. 20 |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (381 pages) |
שפה |
אנגלית |
מספר מערכת |
997010706181405171 |
תצוגת MARC
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