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Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Hubert Haider

    1. Department of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
      Institut für Linguistik/Germanistik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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  2. Susan Olsen

    1. Department of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
      Institut für Linguistik/Germanistik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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  3. Sten Vikner

    1. Department of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
      Institut für Linguistik/Germanistik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 31)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    • Hubert Haider, Susan Olsen, Sten Vikner
    Pages 1-45

  3. On the Origin of Sentential Arguments in German and Bengali

    • Josef Bayer
    Pages 47-75

  4. A Unified Structural Representation of (Abstract) Case and Article

    • Giuliana Giusti
    Pages 77-93

  5. Preposition Stranding and Resumptivity in West Germanic

    • Jarich Hoekstra
    Pages 95-118

  6. To Have to be Dative

    • Teun Hoekstra
    Pages 119-137

  7. Case and Scrambling: D-Structure Versus S-Structure

    • Helen de Hoop, Wim Kosmeijer
    Pages 139-158

  8. Agreement and Verb Morphology in Three Varieties of English

    • Richard S. Kayne
    Pages 159-165

  9. Structural Case, Specifier-Head Relations, and the Case of Predicate NPs

    • Joan Maling, Rex A. Sprouse
    Pages 167-186

  10. Crossover, Chain Formation, and Unambiguous Binding

    • Gereon Müller
    Pages 187-218

  11. Complex Predicates in Dutch and English

    • Ad Neeleman
    Pages 219-240

  12. Pronouns, Anaphors and Case

    • Eric Reuland, Tanya Reinhart
    Pages 241-268

  13. Object Movement and Verb Movement in Early Modern English

    • Ian Roberts
    Pages 269-284

  14. Cross-Dialectal Variation in Swiss German: Doubling Verbs, Verb-Projection Raising, Barrierhood, and LF Movement

    • Manuela Schönenberger, Zvi Penner
    Pages 285-305

  15. On Agreement and Nominative Objects in Icelandic

    • Knut Tarald Taraldsen
    Pages 307-327

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 329-346
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o. COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX This volume contains 13 papers that were prepared for the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanie Syntax at the University of Stuttgart in November 1991. In defining the theme both of the workshop and of this volume, we have taken "comparative" in "comparative Germanic syntax" to mean that at least two languages should be analyzed and "Germanic" to mean that at least one of these languages should be Germanic. There was no require­ ment as such that the research presented should be situated within the framework known as Principles and Parameters Theory (previously known as Government and Binding Theory), though it probably is no accident that this nevertheless turned out to be the case. Within this theory, it is seen as highly desirable to be able to account for several differences on the surface by deriving them from fewer under­ lying differences. The reason is that, in order to explain the ease with which children acquire language, it is assumed that not all knowledge of any given language is the result of learning, but that instead children already possess part of this knowledge at birth (the innate part of linguistic knowledge will obviously be the same for all human beings, and thus this theory also provides an explanation of language universals). The fewer "real" (i.e.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

    Hubert Haider, Susan Olsen, Sten Vikner

  • Institut für Linguistik/Germanistik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Hubert Haider, Susan Olsen, Sten Vikner

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