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9 February 2010

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Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax

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

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Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham
University of Groningen / University of California Berkeley

2002. xiv, 407 pp.
Publishing status: Available

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978 90 272 2774 4 / EUR 135.00
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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).


Table of contents

Introduction
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
Susanne 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 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