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Studies on Old High German syntax : left sentence periphery, verb placement and verb-second /
This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre-verb-second grammar by answering the following questions: To what extent did generalized verb movement exist in Old Hi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 112. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre-verb-second grammar by answering the following questions: To what extent did generalized verb movement exist in Old High German? Was there already obligatory XP-movement to the left periphery in declarative root clauses? What deviations from the linear verb-second restriction are attested and what do such phenomena reveal about the structure of the left sentence periphery? Did verb placement play the same role in s. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 363 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-358) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027291981 9027291985 1282152637 9781282152632 9786612152634 661215263X |