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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783424203321

Autore

Mohr Sabine <1970->

Titolo

Clausal architecture and subject positions : impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages / / Sabine Mohr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub., , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-282-15628-4

9786612156281

90-272-9399-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 207 pages)

Collana

Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 88

Disciplina

430/.045

Soggetti

Germanic languages - Clauses

Germanic languages - Grammar, Comparative

Germanic languages - Word order

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 (p. [199]-204) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an interaction of checking conditions, the EPP and different types of verb movement, and from parametric variation concerning the location of the subject of predication in the I- or in the C-system.