LINGUIST List 13.1269

Tue May 7 2002

Books: Syntax:Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology

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  • paul, Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology by W.Abraham & C.J.Zwart (eds)

    Message 1: Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology by W.Abraham & C.J.Zwart (eds)

     Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 10:16:34 +0000
    From: paul <paulbenjamins.com>
    Subject: Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology by W.Abraham & C.J.Zwart (eds)


    Title: Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 45 Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: John Benjamins Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA_45 Editor: Werner Abraham Editor: C. Jan-Wouter Zwart

    Hardback: ISBN: 1 58811 102 4, Pages: xviii, 336 pp., Price: USD 100.00 Comment: U.S. and Canada Hardback: ISBN: 90 272 2766 7, Pages: xviii, 336 pp., Price: EUR 110.00 Comment: Rest of world Abstract: John Benjamins Publishing would like to announce the publication of the following title in the field of Generative Studies:Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology by Werner Abraham and C. Jan-Wouter Zwart (eds.), University of California, Berkeley/University of Groningen

    This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles, V-2 and V-last, need to integrate discourse functions like thema and rhema into the grammatical description. This is attempted, in terms of Minimalism, thus extending the functional domain. Special attention is given to the asymmetrical scrambling behavior of indefinites vs. definites and their semantic interpretation. Related topics are: Transitive expletive sentences, types of existential sentences with either BE or HAVE, the that-trace phenomenon and its semantics, negative polarity items, ellipsis and gapping, passivization, double negation - all of which have extensive effects both on distributional behavior and semantic disambiguation, reaching far beyond effects observable in English with its rigid, "un-scrambable" word order.

    Contributions by: Cedric Boeckx; Jocelyn Cohan; Christine Czinglar; Britta Jensen; Wolfgang Klein; Juergen Lenerz; Enrique Mall�n; Laszlo Molnarfi; Athina Sioupi; Wolfgang Sternefeld; John te Velde. Lingfield(s): Syntax Subject Language(s): German

    Written In: English



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