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1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) |
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Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 88 |
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 88.
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| Contents |
Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Acknowledgements; I. Introduction; II. Clausal architecture and the EPP; 1. Subject positions and the EPP: the evolution of the two concepts; 2. The EPP and the Extension Condition; 3. Clause structure; 4. Checking; 5. The 'universal EPP' on T; 6. Summary; III. Impersonal constructions and subject positions; 7. The constructions to be discussed and previous accounts; 8. The derivation of presentational sentences and impersonal passives; 9. Constructions involving quasi-arguments (or not); 10. Summary |
| Summary |
This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an interaction of checking conditions, the EPP and different types of verb movement, and from parametric variation concerning the location of the subject of predication in the I- or in the C-system. In the discussion of a range of impersonal constructions in German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Icelandic, the Ma |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-204) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Germanic languages -- Clauses
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Germanic languages -- Grammar, Comparative
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Germanic languages -- Word order
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- German.
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Germanic languages -- Clauses
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Germanic languages -- Grammar, Comparative
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Germanic languages -- Word order
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Onpersoonlijke constructies.
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Germaanse talen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789027293992 |
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9027293996 |
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9789027233523 |
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9027233527 |
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1282156284 |
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9781282156289 |
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9786612156281 |
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6612156287 |
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