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• Inhalt: Introduction
• 1. - W. Abraham, The Base Structure of the German Clause under Discourse Functional Weight: Contentful Functional Categories vs Derivative Ones. - H. Czepluch, Word Order in English: Old Problems and New Answers. - E. van Gelderen, Inflection and Movement in Old English. - H. Haider, Projective Economy. On the Minimal Functional Structure on the German Clause. - C.J.-W. Zwart, Transitive Expletive Constructions and the Evidence Supporting the Multiple Specifier Hypothesis. - Introduction
• 2. - A. Alexiadou/E. Anagnostopoulou, Toward a Uniform Account of Scrambling and Clitic Doubling. - K.K. Grohmann, Pronouns of the Left Periphery of West Germanic Embedded Clauses. - E. Mallen, Agreement and Case Matching in Noun Phrases in German. - J. te Velde, Deriving Conjoined XP's: A Minimal Deletion Approach. - Introduction
• 3. - Chr. Platzack, The Initial Hypotheses of Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective on Language Acquisition and Attrition. - R.A. Sprouse, The Acquisition of German and the "Initial Hypothesis of Language": A Reply to Platzack.
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The volume assembles eleven articles presenting a linguistic approach to the grammar of German, English and the diachronic forerunners of English. Common to all is a theoretical discussion against the background of Chomskyan minimalism (1993) and more recent developments of it (Kayne 1993, Chomsky 1995), all of which make language typology comparisons an interesting proposition. Some of the articles are critical of certain aspects of these theoretical approaches. For all their claims to descriptive universality, it transpires that they fail to address a number of features specific to German.
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• Modal complement ellipsis: VP ellipsis in Dutch? / Lobke Aelbrecht
• On the adverbial reading of infrequency adjectives and the structure of the DP / Artemis Alexiadou & Cinzia Campanini
• Crossing the lake: motion verb constructions in Bodensee-Alemannic and Swiss German / Ellen Brandner & Martin Salzmann
• Preposition-determiner amalgams in German and French at the syntax-morphology interface / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
• Conditional clauses, main clause phenomena and the syntax of polarity emphasis / Lieven Danckaert & Liliane Haegeman
• Cross-Germanic variation in binding condition B / Glyn Hicks
• Development of sentential negation in the history of German / Anges Jäger & Doris Penka
• Contact, animacy, and affectedness in Germanic / Björn Lundquist & Gillian Ramchand
• Syntactic change in progress: the Icelandic "new construction" as an active impersonal / Joan Maling & Sigríǒr Sigurjónsdóttir
• Cross Germanic variation in the realm of support verbs / Christer Platzack
• The shift to strict VO in English at the PF-interface / Agnieszka Pysz & Bartosz Wiland
• Deriving reconstruction asymmetries in across The Board Movement by means of asymmetric extraction + ellipsis / Martin Salzmann
• A morphology guided matching approach to German(ic) relative constructions / Volker Struckmeier.

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of Germanic languages. Among the theoretical and empirical issues explored are various ellipsis phenomena, the internal structure of the DP, the syntax-morphology interface, the syntax-semantics interface, Binding Theory, various diachronic developments, and `do-support'-type phenomena. This book is of interest to syntacticians with an interest in theoretical, comparative and/or diachronic work, as well as to morphologists and semanticists interested in the connections their fields have with syntax. It will also be of interest to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in linguistic disciplines.
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• 1. Preface
• 2. Introduction
• 3. Theta-role Assignment in Passives
• 4. Case Assignment in Passives
• 5. A Comparative Analysis: Norwegian and English Passives
• 6. Passivization and Ergative Verbs
• 7. Organization of Grammar and Ergative and Passive Constructions
• 8. References
• 9. Subject Index.
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This book provides an analysis of the passive phenomenon in general and of Norwegian passive constructions in particular. Related topics such as English passive constructions and Norwegian ergative constructions are also examined. The analysis is carried out within a Government and Binding framework. Chapter 1 contains a very brief introduction to GB syntax and a description of the passive phenomenon and its manifestation in Norwegian. The "orthodox analysis" of the passive as proposed in Chomsky's Lectures on Government and Binding is contrasted with the "new analysis", which claims that "the passive morpheme" is an argument of the verb. The book sets out to show that a version of this "new analysis" successfully explains the basic properties of Norwegian passives. Chapters 2 and 3 examine properties of Norwegian passives, notably properties related to Theta-role assignment and Case assignment. Chapter 4 compares the Norwegian with the English passive and proposes a unified analysis of the two. Chapter 5 discusses various cases of passivization failure in Norwegian , while Chapter 6 focuses on the scope of movement in passive and ergative constructions in Norwegian and proposes a syntactic level "beneath" D-structure.
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• 1. Preface
• 2. Introduction
• 3. Theta-role Assignment in Passives
• 4. Case Assignment in Passives
• 5. A Comparative Analysis: Norwegian and English Passives
• 6. Passivization and Ergative Verbs
• 7. Organization of Grammar and Ergative and Passive Constructions
• 8. References
• 9. Subject Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book provides an analysis of the passive phenomenon in general and of Norwegian passive constructions in particular. Related topics such as English passive constructions and Norwegian ergative constructions are also examined. The analysis is carried out within a Government and Binding framework. Chapter 1 contains a very brief introduction to GB syntax and a description of the passive phenomenon and its manifestation in Norwegian. The "orthodox analysis" of the passive as proposed in Chomsky's Lectures on Government and Binding is contrasted with the "new analysis", which claims that "the passive morpheme" is an argument of the verb. The book sets out to show that a version of this "new analysis" successfully explains the basic properties of Norwegian passives. Chapters 2 and 3 examine properties of Norwegian passives, notably properties related to Theta-role assignment and Case assignment. Chapter 4 compares the Norwegian with the English passive and proposes a unified analysis of the two. Chapter 5 discusses various cases of passivization failure in Norwegian , while Chapter 6 focuses on the scope of movement in passive and ergative constructions in Norwegian and proposes a syntactic level "beneath" D-structure.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)