Studies in comparative Germanic syntax

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Studies in comparative Germanic syntax

edited by Hubert Haider, Susan Olsen, and Sten Vikner

（Studies in natural language and linguistic theory, v. 31, 38）

Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1995-

  • [v. 1]
  • v. 2

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Vol. 1 contains selected papers from the 7th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax held at the University of Stuttgart in Nov. 1991; vol. 2 contains selected papers from the 9th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at Harvard University in Jan. 5-6, 1994

Vol. 2 edited by Höskuldur Thráinsson, Samuel David Epstein and Steve Peter

Includes bibliographies, and language, name and subject indexes

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Volume

[v. 1] ISBN 9780792332800

Description

o. COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX This volume contains 13 papers that were prepared for the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanie Syntax at the University of Stuttgart in November 1991. In defining the theme both of the workshop and of this volume, we have taken "comparative" in "comparative Germanic syntax" to mean that at least two languages should be analyzed and "Germanic" to mean that at least one of these languages should be Germanic. There was no require ment as such that the research presented should be situated within the framework known as Principles and Parameters Theory (previously known as Government and Binding Theory), though it probably is no accident that this nevertheless turned out to be the case. Within this theory, it is seen as highly desirable to be able to account for several differences on the surface by deriving them from fewer under lying differences. The reason is that, in order to explain the ease with which children acquire language, it is assumed that not all knowledge of any given language is the result of learning, but that instead children already possess part of this knowledge at birth (the innate part of linguistic knowledge will obviously be the same for all human beings, and thus this theory also provides an explanation of language universals). The fewer "real" (i.e.

Table of Contents

  • 0. Introduction
  • H. Haider, S. Olsen, S. Vikner. 1. On the Origin of Sentential Arguments in German and Bengali
  • J. Bayer. 2. A Unified Structural Representation of (Abstract) Case and Article. Evidence from Germanic
  • G. Giusti. 3. Preposition Stranding and Resumptivity in West Germanic
  • J. Hoekstra. 4. To Have to be Dative
  • T. Hoekstra. 5. Case and Scrambling: D-Structure versus S-Structure
  • H. de Hoop, W. Kosmeijer. 6. Agreement and Verb Morphology in Three Varieties of English
  • R. Kayne. 7. Structural Case, Specifier-Head Relations, and the Case of Predicate NPs
  • J. Maling, R. Sprouse. 8. Crossover Effects, Chain Formation, and Unambiguous Binding
  • G. Muller. 9. Complex Predicates in Dutch and English
  • A. Neeleman. 10. Pronouns, Anaphors and Case
  • E. Reuland, T. Reinhart. 11. Object Movement and Verb Movement in Early Modern English
  • I. Roberts. 12. Cross-Dialectal Variation in Swiss German: Doubling Verbs, Verb Projection Raising, Barrierhood, and LF Movement
  • M. Schoenenberger, Z. Penner. 13. On Agreement and Nominative Objects in Icelandic
  • T. Taraldsen. Index.
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9781402002946

Description

O. THE CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME AND THE FIELD OF COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX Comparati ve synchronic and diachronic syntax has become an increasingly popular and fruitful research area over the past 10-15 years. A central reason for this is that recent developments in linguistic theory have made it possible to formulate explicit and testable hypotheses concerning syntactic universals and cross-linguistic varia- tion. Here we refer to the so-called "Principles-and-Parameters" approaches (see Chomsky 1981a, 1982, 1986a, and also Williams 1987, Freidin 1991, Chomsky and Lasnik 1993, and references cited in these works). It may even be fair to say that the Government-Binding framework (first outlined by Chomsky 1981b)-a spe- cific instantiation of the Principles-and-Parameters approach-has been more influential than any other theoretical syntactic framework. Since 1984, syntacticians investigating the formal properties of Germanic languages have, as an international effort, organized "workshops" on comparative Germanic syntax. The first was held at the University of Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway (1984), the second at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland (1985), the third at the University of Abo in Abo, Finland (1986), the fourth at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1987), the fifth in Groningen, The Nether- lands (1988), the sixth in Lund, Sweden (1989), the seventh in Stuttgart, Germany (1991), the eighth in Troms~, Norway (1992), the ninth at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (1994), the tenth at the Catholic University in Brussels, Belgium (1995), and the eleventh at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA (1995).

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • H. Thrainsson, et al. A Change in Structural Case Marking in Early English
  • C.L. Allen. Deficient Pronouns: A View from Germanic. A Study in the Unified Description of Germanic and Romance
  • A. Cardinaletti, M. Starke. Semantic Variables and Object Shift
  • M. Diesing. Very Exceptional Case Marking
  • M. den Dikken, J.-W. Zwart. Functional Categories, Cliticization, and Verb Movement in the Early Germanic Languages
  • T. Eythorsson. The Shift to Head-Initial VP in Germanic
  • P. Kiparsky. Null Subjects, Weak Agr and Syntactic Differences in Scandinavian
  • C. Platzack. The Argumental Licensing of Perfect Tense
  • G. Postma. Prepositions and Minimalist Case Marking
  • J. Rooryck. N-Feature Checking in Germanic Verb Second Configurations
  • J.-W. Zwart. List of Contributors. Language Index. Name Index. Subject Index.

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