Comparative studies in word order variation : adverbs, pronouns, and clause structure in Romance and Germanic / / Christopher Laenzlinger

• Autore: Laenzlinger Christopher
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (381 pages)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Languages, Modern - Word order; Languages, Modern - Variation; Languages, Modern - Adverb; Languages, Modern - Pronoun; Languages, Modern - Clauses
• Note generali: Revision of the author's thesis--University of Geneva, 1996.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-361) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The empirical background; 1.2 The theoretical background; 1.3 Organization of the book; 2 The Syntax of Adverbs; 2.1 Towards a typology of adverbs; 2.2 The distribution of adverbs; 2.3 Towards a syntactic definition of adverbs; 2.4 The semantics of adverbs; 2.5 The syntax-semantics interface; 2.6 The GB-based approaches; 2.7 Adverb insertion and phrase structure; 2.8 Extraposition in the right A-specifier; 2.9 The licensing of adverb positioning; 2.10 Adverb hierarchy and clause structure; 2.11 The linear placement of adverbs; 2.12 Conclusion ; 3 Pronouns 3.1 Object pronouns; 3.2 Subject pronouns; 4 The Structure of the German Clause; 4.1 An overview of the German Mittelfeld; 4.2 A survey of scrambling transformations; 4.3 Scrambling and specificity; 4.4 Scrambling and focus; 4.5 Scrambling and adverb distribution; 4.6 Speculations on V2; 4.7 Conclusion; 5 Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of French/Romance and German/Germanic. It starts by asking: What do adverbs, pronouns and full noun phrases have in common? This question is tackled, on the one hand, from an empirical perspective by the description of relevant linguistic facts leading to significant and unexpected generalizations, and, on the other hand, from a theoretical perspective by the formalization of (i) a novel model of the Xbar-schema containing at most two Specifiers (double Spec model) and (ii) a well-defined model of Checking Theory, dist
• Titolo autorizzato: Comparative studies in word order variation
• ISBN: 9786613234193; 1-283-23419-X; 90-272-8231-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781763703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; 20.