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Issues in formal German(ic) typology /

This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Abraham, Werner, Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2002.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 45.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors' addresses; Introduction; German clause structure under discourse functional weight; On the co-occurrence of expletives and definite subjects in Germanic; Reconsidering identificational focus; Decomposing existence; Polarity items in English and Danish; The argument-time structure of recipient constructions in German; Attributive adjectives in Germanic and Romance; Die Negationsklammer im Afrikaans; On the syntax and semantics of verb-complement constructions that involve 'creation'