Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology - Couverture rigide

 
9789027227669: Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9027227667 ISBN 13 : 9789027227669
Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2002

Synopsis

This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles, V-2 and V-last, need to integrate discourse functions like thema and rhema into the grammatical description. This is attempted, in terms of Minimalism, thus extending the functional domain. Special attention is given to the asymmetrical scrambling behavior of indefinites vs. definites and their semantic interpretation. Related topics are: Transitive expletive sentences, types of existential sentences with either BE or HAVE, the that-trace phenomenon and its semantics, negative polarity items, ellipsis and gapping, passivization, double negation ― all of which have extensive effects both on distributional behavior and semantic disambiguation, reaching far beyond effects observable in English with its rigid, ‘un-scrambable’ word order.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles, V-2 and V-last, need to integrate discourse functions like thema and rhema into the grammatical description. This is attempted, in terms of Minimalism, thus extending the functional domain. Special attention is given to the asymmetrical scrambling behavior of indefinites vs. definites and their semantic interpretation. Related topics are: Transitive expletive sentences, types of existential sentences with either BE or HAVE, the that-trace phenomenon and its semantics, negative polarity items, ellipsis and gapping, passivization, double negation ― all of which have extensive effects both on distributional behavior and semantic disambiguation, reaching far beyond effects observable in English with its rigid, ‘un-scrambable’ word order.

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Éditeur
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9027227667
ISBN 13 
9789027227669
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
354
Éditeur
Abraham Werner, Zwart Jan-Wouter
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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Editeur : John Benjamins Pub Co, 2002
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