Date: 03-Jun-2009 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Alexiadou, Hankamer, McFadden, Nuger (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 141
Published: 2009
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Artemis Alexiadou
Editor: Jorge Hankamer
Editor: Thomas McFadden
Editor: tin Nuger
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289575 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289575 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255242 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255242 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Abstract:
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Stuttgart. The contributions provide insightful discussions of several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of contemporary and historical Germanic languages. The theoretical issues explored include: the left periphery, with a number of contributions touching on the pros and contras of cartographic accounts; different aspects of word order and how it arises from movement and clause structure; the interplay of thematic relations and case theory with the realization of DPs; and the treatment of finiteness and modal structures. This book is of interest to syntacticians working in a comparative perspective and to advanced undergraduates.