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  • Intro
  • Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Sentential proforms
  • 1. The outset
  • 2. Recent approaches to sentential proforms and relating clauses
  • 2.1 Es-proforms
  • 2.1.1 Hybrid approaches
  • 2.1.2 Uniform approaches
  • 2.1.3 Relationship between es-items and relating clauses
  • 2.2 Prepositional correlates (ProPPs)
  • 2.2.1 Hybrid approaches
  • 2.2.2 Uniform approaches
  • 2.2.3 Relationship between ProPPs and relating clauses
  • 3. Longstanding questions and new contributions
  • 3.1 Correlates and pro-forms
  • 3.2 Complex DP- and PP-shells and the position of the related clause
  • 3.3 Missing sentential proforms
  • 3.4 Influence of sentential proforms on the sentence meaning
  • 3.5 Difference between es- and das-proforms
  • 3.6 Proforms and corresponding complex nouns
  • 3.7 Lexical entries for sentential proforms
  • 3.8 Crosslinguistic variation
  • 4. The chapters
  • 4.1 Theoretical and empirical arguments in favor of the hybrid approach
  • 4.2 Special topics of proform constructions
  • References
  • Correlates of object clauses in German and Dutch
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Correlate-es in German
  • 3. Correlate-es as an expletive?
  • 4. Syntactic properties of correlate-es
  • 5. Types of matrix verbs
  • 6. Information structure
  • 7. Dutch
  • 8. Summary and open questions
  • References
  • Correlative es vs. das in German
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The correlative elements es/das in constructions with argument clauses
  • 2.1 Grammatical differences between es and das
  • 2.2 Verb-class dependency
  • 3. Experimental evidence for the distinction between placeholders and pro-forms
  • 3.1 Acceptability ratings of es vs. das (Experiment 1)
  • 3.1.1 Material
  • 3.1.2 Procedure
  • 3.1.3 Participants
  • 3.1.4 Results and discussion.
  • 3.2 Es vs. das in a self-paced reading study (Experiment 2)
  • 3.2.1 Material
  • 3.2.2 Procedure
  • 3.2.3 Participants
  • 3.2.4 Results and discussion
  • 4. The distinction between placeholder-es- and non-placeholder-es-taking verbs: Combining corpus and experimental evidence
  • 4.1 Corpus study
  • 4.1.1 Procedure
  • 4.1.2 Results and discussion
  • 4.2 An acceptability rating experiment on the verb-class-dependent use of placeholder es vs. anaphoric es (Experiment 3)
  • 4.2.1 Material and procedure
  • 4.2.2 Participants
  • 4.2.3 Results and discussion
  • 5. Summary
  • References
  • Appendix
  • On properties differentiating constructions with inner-sentential pro-forms for clauses
  • 1. Various constructions with an inner-sentential clausal pro-form
  • 2. The construction of the bedauern-class
  • 3. The construction of the behaupten-class
  • 4. The constructions with a prepositional adverb
  • 5. The construction of the überraschen-class
  • 6. Overview of the observed characteristics of the five constructions
  • 7. The possibility of root phenomena in the dependent clause
  • 8. Summary
  • References
  • Some distinctions in the right periphery of the German clause*
  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. A prosodic distinction between extraposition and right dislocation
  • 1.1 Default stress in German
  • 1.2 The prosodic effects of focus and of givenness
  • 1.3 A prosodic distinction between extraposition and right dislocation/afterthought
  • 1.4 An information structure distinction between extraposition and right dislocation/afterthought
  • 2. On the prosody of correlate constructions in German
  • 2.1 PPs with da-
  • 2.2 Right dislocation of clauses
  • 2.3 Genuine correlates
  • 2.4 Coindexed subject expletives
  • 3. Analysis of the distinctions in prosody and information structure between extraposition, right dislocation, and afterthought.
  • 3.1 A deletion account of right dislocation and afterthought
  • 3.2 Root sentences, sentence stress, and focus
  • 3.3 Analysis of extraposition, RD, and AT
  • 3.4 On the interaction of stress-assignment and deletion in RD and AT
  • 4. Summary
  • References
  • Phonological, morphosyntactic and semantic properties of es
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic assumptions
  • 3. Lexical entries
  • 3.1 Positional es
  • 3.2 Quasi-argument es
  • 3.3 "Anaphoric" pronouns and pro-forms es, dessen, dem, das, da(r)
  • Anchor 91
  • 3.4 The related item of anaphoric pronouns and pro-forms
  • 3.5 The correlate es and its suppletive forms
  • 4. Right dislocation vs. extraposition
  • 5. Matrix-predicate types
  • 6. Complex anaphoric and cataphoric DPs
  • 7. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • On the formation of prepositional adverbs in Modern German
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The adverbial basis
  • 3. The prepositional bases
  • 3.1 'Below a location (static)'
  • 3.2 'Below a location (dynamic)'
  • 3.3 'Below a degree (static)'
  • 3.4 'Below a degree (dynamic)'
  • 3.5 'Identifiable by a linguistic or conceptual unit (static)'
  • 3.6 'Identifiable by a linguistic or conceptual unit (dynamic)'
  • 3.7 'Under a location (static)'
  • 3.8 'Under a location (dynamic)'
  • 3.9 'Caused by a burdening state of affairs'
  • 3.10 'Among a multitude (static)'
  • 3.11 'Among a multitude (dynamic)'
  • 4. The prepositional adverbs
  • 4.1 'Below a location there (static)'
  • 4.2 'Caused by a burdening state of affairs there'
  • 4.3 'Among a multitude there (static)'
  • 5. Results
  • References
  • List of sources
  • Sentential proforms and argument conditionals
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Syntactic remarks on proforms and argument wenn-clauses
  • 2.1 Construction types
  • 2.2 Adverbial approach or complement approach
  • 2.2.1 Pre-sentential argument wenn-clauses.
  • 2.2.2 Post-sentential argument wenn-clauses
  • 2.2.3 Question-answer pairs and argument wenn-clauses
  • 2.3 Proforms of pre- and post-sentential wenn-clauses
  • 3. Syntactic structure of constructions with argument wenn-clauses
  • 3.1 Pre-sentential argument wenn-clauses
  • 3.2 Post-sentential argument wenn-clauses
  • 3.3 Missing proforms
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
  • Rethinking clausal asymmetries
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The data: Propositional pronoun insertion in Hungarian
  • 3. The syntax of pronoun insertion
  • 3.1 The EF-analysis: The role of SpecCP
  • 4. On the notion of predicationality
  • 4.1 Predication vs. assertion
  • 4.2 Predicational vs. non-predicational complements
  • 5. The Predicationality Hypothesis
  • 5.1 Pronoun insertion and predicationality
  • 5.2 Summary
  • 6. Information-structural consequences
  • 6.1 Propositional (cataphoric) pronoun
  • Focusing
  • 6.2 Propositional (anaphoric) pronoun
  • Backgrounding
  • 6.3 Summary
  • 7. Supporting evidence
  • 7.1 Wh-expletives
  • Asymmetry
  • 7.2 Extraction data
  • No asymmetry
  • 8. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index.