Comparative Studies in Word Order Variation : Adverbs, pronouns, and clause structure in Romance and Germanic.

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The present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of French/Romance and German/Germanic. It starts by asking: What do adverbs, pronouns and full noun phrases have in common? This question is tackled, on the one hand, from an empirical perspective by the description of relev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Laenzlinger, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 20.
Temas:
Languages, Modern > Word order.
Languages, Modern > Variation.
Languages, Modern > Adverb.
Languages, Modern > Pronoun.
Languages, Modern > Clauses.
Ordre des mots.
Langues vivantes > Variation.
Langues vivantes > Adverbe.
Langues vivantes > Pronom.
Langues vivantes > Propositions.
Languages, Modern > Adverb
Languages, Modern > Pronoun
Languages, Modern > Variation
Languages, Modern > Word order
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The empirical background
  • 1.2 The theoretical background
  • 1.2.1 The phrase structure component
  • 1.2.2 The composition of clause structure
  • 1.2.3 Checking Theory
  • 1.2.4 Movement
  • 1.2.5 Chains and conditions on representation
  • 1.3 Organization of the book
  • 2 The Syntax of Adverbs
  • 2.1 Towards a typology of adverbs
  • 2.2 The distribution of adverbs
  • 2.2.1 Sentence adverbs
  • 2.2.2 VP-adverbs
  • 2.3 Towards a syntactic definition of adverbs
  • 2.3.1 Adverbs as A-specifiers
  • 2.3.2 Adverbs in predication.
  • 2.4 The semantics of adverbs
  • 2.5 The syntax-semantics interface
  • 2.6 The GB-based approaches
  • 2.7 Adverb insertion and phrase structure
  • 2.7.1 Against Adjunction
  • 2.7.2 The double Spec model of X-schema
  • 2.7.3 Kayne's (1994) Linear Correspondence Axiom
  • 2.8 Extraposition in the right A-specifier
  • 2.9 The licensing of adverb positioning
  • 2.9.1 Two types of adverbial operators
  • 2.9.2 The Adv-Criterion vs. Checking Theory
  • 2.10 Adverb hierarchy and clause structure
  • 2.11 The linear placement of adverbs
  • 2.11.1 Verb movement
  • 2.11.2 Extraposition.
  • 2.11.3 The distribution of adverbs within CP
  • 2.12 Conclusion
  • 3 Pronouns
  • 3.1 Object pronouns
  • 3.1.1 Romance object pronouns
  • 3.1.2 Germanic object pronouns
  • 3.2 Subject pronouns
  • 3.2.1 French and Northern Italian subject pronouns
  • 3.2.2 Subject pronouns in Germanic
  • 4 The Structure of the German Clause
  • 4.1 An overview of the German Mittelfeld
  • 4.2 A survey of scrambling transformations
  • 4.3 Scrambling and specificity
  • 4.4 Scrambling and focus
  • 4.5 Scrambling and adverb distribution
  • 4.6 Speculations on V2
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Endnotes.

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