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Title Organizing Grammar : Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk / edited by Hans Broekhuis [and others]
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 716 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in generative grammar ; 86
Studies in generative grammar ; 86.
Contents List of contributors -- Hi Morris, this is Henk! -- An intersubjective note on the notion of ‚subjectification� -- A note on non-canonical passives: the case of the get-passive -- Displaced and misplaced genitives -- Preposition stranding and locative adverbs in German -- Moving verbal complexes in Spanish -- Unbearably light verbs versus finite auxiliary drop -- Extraction from subjects: some remarks on Chomsky�s On phases -- A Chinese relative -- Approximative of zo as a diagnostic tool
A note on interpretable features and idiosyncratic categorial selectionTransparent, free ... and polarised: the (poli)tics of polarity in transparent free relatives -- The inverse agreement constraint in Hungarian: a relic of a Uralic-Siberian Sprachbund? -- Syntactic conditions on phonetically empty morphemes -- Long-distance reciprocals -- The notion of topic and the problem of quantification in Hungarian -- Questions of complexity -- Functional heads, lexical heads and hybrid categories -- Concatenation and interpretation -- As time goes by: a digressive discourse
There�s that: unifying existential and list readingsExtended projections -- extended analogues: a note on Hungarian PPs -- Against the sonority scale: evidence from Frankish tones -- Classifiers, agreement and honorifics in Japanese -- What stranded adjectives reveal about Split-NP Topicalization -- Past tense interpretations in Dutch -- Why phonology is the same -- Recursively linked Case-Agreement: from accidents to principles and beyond -- Enfoldment as Economy -- „GP, I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground“
On parameters and on principles of pronunciationWhat to do with those fools of a crew! -- Why indefinite pronouns are different -- Seeing the forest despite the tree -- When to pied-pipe and when to strand in San Dionicio Octotepec Zapotec -- Free relatives as light-headed relatives in Turkish -- Is linguistics a natural science? -- Two asymmetries between Clitic Left and Clitic Right Dislocation in Bulgarian -- On dative subjects in Russian -- On the nature of case in Basque: structural or inherent? -- Examining the scope of Principles-and-Parameters Theory
Clitics and adjacency in Greek PPsA minimalist program for parametric linguistics? -- A syntactic approach to negated focus questions in Bulgarian -- The case of midpositions -- Quechua P-soup -- Semantic compositionality of the way-construction -- Soft mutation at the interface -- Abracadabra, the relation between stress and rhythm -- What do we learn when we acquire a language? -- A prosodic contrast between Northern and Southern Dutch: a result of a Flemish-French sprachbund -- The object of verbs like help and an apparent violation of UTAH
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
"Bibliography of Henk C. van Riemsdijk": pages 696-706
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SUBJECT Riemsdijk, Henk C. van. swd
Subject Grammar, Comparative and general.
Linguistics.
Linguistics
linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Linguistics
Generative Grammatik
Grammatica.
Form Electronic book
Author Riemsdijk, Henk C. van
Broekhuis, Hans, 1959-
LC no. 2005031175
ISBN 9783110892994
3110892995