Crossing boundaries [[electronic resource] ] : advances in the theory of Central and Eastern European languages / / edited by István Kenesei, with the assistance of Tibor Szécsényi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790038103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c1999
• ISBN: 1-283-12172-7; 9786613121721; 90-272-8461-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 182
• Altri autori (Persone): KeneseiIstván; SzécsényiTibor
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetti: Slavic languages; Europe, Eastern Languages; Europe, Central Languages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: CROSSING BOUNDARIES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CLITIC, HEAD AND PHRASAL MOVEMENT; CLITICIZATION AND CLITICHOOD; EVENTIVE TO AND THE PLACEMENT OF CLITICS IN SERBO-CROATIAN; THE STRUCTURE OF OLD RUSSIAN PERIPHRASTIC VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS; STYLISTIC VERB MOVEMENT IN YES-NO QUESTIONS IN BULGARIAN AND BRETON*; STRATEGIES OF COMPLEX PREDICATE FORMATION AND THE HUNGARIAN VERBAL COMPLEX; HUNGARIAN COMPLEX VERBS AND XP-MOVEMENT; DP STRUCTURE; ON THE STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION OF POSSESSION AND AGREEMENT* THE CASE OF (ANTI-)AGREEMENT IN HUNGARIAN POSSESSED NOMINAL PHRASESON THE SYNTAX OF THE GENITIVE IN NOMINALS: THE CASE OF POLISH; ASPECT AND NOMINALIZATIONS* THE CASE OF ROMANIAN; CLAUSAL STRUCTURE; NON-ACTIVE MORPHOLOGY IN ALBANIAN AND EVENT (DE)COMPOSITION*; AUTHOR INDEX; INDEXOF LANGUAGES; SUBJECT INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The book contains eleven articles on theoretical problems in Albanian, Hungarian, Polish, (Old) Russian, Romanian, and the South Slavic languages of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian. They cover topics such as clitics, head and phrasal movement, the structure of the DP, and clause structure. A number of papers refer to and make systematic comparisons with languages outside the region, including Breton, German, Hebrew, and Welsh. Since the papers were selected from an international conference in Spring 1998 in Szeged, Hungary, they represent the crossing of boundaries in thre