Clausal architecture and subject positions : impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages /
This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an interact...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©2005.
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Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 88. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an interaction of checking conditions, the EPP and different types of verb movement, and from parametric variation concerning the location of the subject of predication in the I- or in the C-system. In the discussion of a range of impersonal constructions in German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Icelandic, the Ma. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-204) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027293992 9027293996 9789027233523 9027233527 1282156284 9781282156289 9786612156281 6612156287 |
ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |