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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782168503321

Autore

Chocano Gema

Titolo

Narrow syntax and phonological form : scrambling in the Germanic languages / / Gema Chocano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-282-15475-3

9786612154751

90-272-9263-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 333 pages)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; 109

Disciplina

435

Soggetti

Germanic languages - Word order

Germanic languages - Syntax

Germanic languages - Phonology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

'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.