German Syntax: A Structure Removal Approach - Couverture rigide

Müller, Gereon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009518038 ISBN 13 : 9781009518031

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Exploring the major syntactic phenomena of German, this book provides a state-of-the-art account of German syntax, as well as an outline of the key aspects of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. It is one of the first comprehensive studies of the entire syntactic component of a natural language within the Minimalist Program, covering core issues including clause structure, binding, case, agreement, control, and movement. It introduces a phase-based theory of syntax that establishes Remove, an operation that removes syntactic structure, as a mirror image of Merge, which builds syntactic structure. This unified approach resolves many cases of conflicting structure assignments in syntax, as they occur with passivization, restructuring, long-distance passivization, complex prefields, bridge verbs, applicatives, null objects, pseudo-noun incorporation, nominal concord, and ellipsis. It will pave the way for similar research into other languages and is essential reading for anyone interested in the syntax of German, syntactic theory, or the Minimalist Program.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gereon Müller is Professor of General Lingustics at Universität Leipzig. His recent publications include Constraints on Displacement (2011), Syntactic Buffers (2014), and Inflectional Morphology in Harmonic Serialism (2020).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009518038
• ISBN 13: 9781009518031
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 398
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie