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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816382703321

Autore

Sapp Christopher D

Titolo

The verbal complex in subordinate clauses from medieval to modern German / / Christopher D. Sapp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 2011

ISBN

1-282-97680-X

9786612976803

90-272-8725-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (vii, 225 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today ; ; v. 173

Disciplina

435/.6

Soggetti

German language - Verb phrase

German language - Syntax

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase

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. [215]-222) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Factors influencing verb order in MHG; 3. Factors influencing verb order in ENHG; 4. Verbal complexes in contemporary German; 5. German clause structure and the prosody-syntax interface; 6. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Sommario/riassunto

This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations of the verbal complex address not only the frequencies of the word orders, but also the linguistic factors that influence them. On that empirical basis, the analysis adopted is the classic verb-final approach, with alternative orders derived by Verb (Projection) Raising.