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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827008103321

Titolo

Issues in formal German(ic) typology / / editors, Werner Abraham, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : J. Benjamins, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-282-16203-9

9786612162039

90-272-9760-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell Issues in formal German(ic) typology

Disciplina

430/.045

Soggetti

Germanic languages - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles, V-2 and V-last, need to integrate discourse functions like thema and rhema into the grammatical description. This is attempted, in terms of Minimalism, thus extending the functional domain.