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Local Instability : Split Topicalization and Quantifier Float in German.

This monograph explores some consequences of the abandonment of phrase-structure grammar in favor of a Merge-based syntax, which dispenses with the notion of 'projection.' This reduced architecture is shown to shed new light on two long-standing problems in syntactic theory: split topicali...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ott, Dennis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012.
Colección:Linguistische Arbeiten.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • 0 Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction: Aims and Scope
  • 2 Split Topics: Empirical Properties and Theoretical Problems
  • 3 The Syntax of Split Topics: A Novel Approach
  • 4 An Extension to Quantifer Float
  • 5 Conclusion and Outlook
  • References
  • Index.