Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax

Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)

Editors

C. Jan-Wouter Zwart

| University of Groningen

Werner Abraham

| University of California Berkeley

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This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.

Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with emphasis on German/Dutch and Danish), displacement phenomena discussed in relation with richness of morphology (with special attention to English, German/Dutch, and Norwegian, as well as presenting more general discussion of the issue), language variation and change (studying historical English syntax and Frisian contact dialects), and the syntax-semantics interface viewed from a Germanic perspective (addressing ellipsis, reflexivity, and the behavior of quantifiers).

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 53] 2002. xiv, 407 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.53

Table of Contents

Introduction C. Jan-Wouter Zwart	vii
List of contributors	xiii
Subordination
Wh-movement and integrated parenthetical constructions Marga Reis	3–40
Van as a marker of dissociation: Microvariation in Dutch Jeroen van Craenenbroeck	41–67
Expletive subjects in subject relative clauses Line Mikkelsen	69–91
Syntactic versus semantic control Susi Wurmbrand	93–127
Movement and Morphology
Parametric variation and scrambling in English Roland Hinterhölzl	131–150
V2 and Holmberg’s Generalization Øystein Nilsen	151–173
The distribution of declarative verb second in Germanic Olaf Koeneman	175–201
A verb’s gotta do what a verb’s gotta do!: On Scandinavian infinitivals and the AGR parameter Øystein Alexander Vangsnes	203–217
On the correlation between morphology and syntax: The case of V-to-I Artemis Alexiadou and Gisbert Fanselow	219–242
Language Variation and Change
Observations on the loss of Verb Second in the history of English Eric Haeberli	245–272
A structure-based analysis of morphosyntactic regularities in language contact Eric Hoekstra	273–286
Syntax and Semantics
Swiping in Germanic Jason Merchant	289–315
The ambiguity of weak reflexive pronouns in English and German Markus Steinbach	317–342
‘Binominal each-constructions’ (BECs) in German and English Malte Zimmermann	343–371
References	373–392
Name index	393–397
Subject index	399–404

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Subjects

Linguistics

Generative linguistics

Germanic linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Comparative linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2002074756 | Marc record