Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax

. Ed(s): Haider, Hubert; Olsen, Susan; Vikner, Sten

ISBN 10: 0792332806 / ISBN 13: 9780792332800

Edité par Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995

In recent years, numerous important innovations in generative grammar have originated within the field of Germanic syntax. The 13 comparative studies in this volume aim to demonstrate how much the field has grown both in quantity and quality within the last decade. Editor(s): Haider, Hubert; Olsen, Susan; Vikner, Sten. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 346 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CFA; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 675. . 1995. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. N° de réf. du vendeur V9780792332800

Synopsis :

o. COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX This volume contains 13 papers that were prepared for the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanie Syntax at the University of Stuttgart in November 1991. In defining the theme both of the workshop and of this volume, we have taken "comparative" in "comparative Germanic syntax" to mean that at least two languages should be analyzed and "Germanic" to mean that at least one of these languages should be Germanic. There was no require- ment as such that the research presented should be situated within the framework known as Principles and Parameters Theory (previously known as Government and Binding Theory), though it probably is no accident that this nevertheless turned out to be the case. Within this theory, it is seen as highly desirable to be able to account for several differences on the surface by deriving them from fewer under- lying differences. The reason is that, in order to explain the ease with which children acquire language, it is assumed that not all knowledge of any given language is the result of learning, but that instead children already possess part of this knowledge at birth (the innate part of linguistic knowledge will obviously be the same for all human beings, and thus this theory also provides an explanation of language universals). The fewer "real" (i.e.

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Titre : Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax
Éditeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date d'édition : 1995
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : New