Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions. Impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages.
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| Title: | Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions. Impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages. |
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| Description: | This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an interaction of checking conditions, the EPP and different types of verb movement, and from parametric variation concerning the location of the subject of predication in the I- or in the C-system. In the discussion of a range of impersonal constructions in German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Icelandic, the Ma. |
| Authors: | MOHR, Sabine |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Germanic languages--Word order, Germanic languages--Clauses, Germanic languages--Grammar, Comparative |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE STUDY / German |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an interaction of checking conditions, the EPP and different types of verb movement, and from parametric variation concerning the location of the subject of predication in the I- or in the C-system. In the discussion of a range of impersonal constructions in German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Icelandic, the Ma. |
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| ISBN: | 9789027233523 9789027293992 |
