Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form. Scrambling in the Germanic languages.
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| Title: | Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form. Scrambling in the Germanic languages. |
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| Description: | 'Scrambling', the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic'Object Shift'. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. Given that its main conclusions are drawn from German data, it also sheds light on several problematic aspects of the grammar of this language, which have traditionally resisted a principled account. Prominent among these are: the inconsistent behaviour of German coherent infinitives with respect t. |
| Authors: | CHOCANO, Gema |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Germanic languages--Phonology, Germanic languages--Syntax, Germanic languages--Word order |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 'Scrambling', the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic'Object Shift'. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. Given that its main conclusions are drawn from German data, it also sheds light on several problematic aspects of the grammar of this language, which have traditionally resisted a principled account. Prominent among these are: the inconsistent behaviour of German coherent infinitives with respect t. |
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| ISBN: | 9789027233738 9789027292636 |
