Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax
：Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)
( Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today )
Publication subTitle ：Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)
Publication series ： Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
Author： C. Jan-Wouter Zwart Werner Abraham
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2002
E-ISBN: 9789027296924
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027227744
Subject： H0 Linguistics
Language： ENG
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Description
This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.
Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with emphasis on German/Dutch and Danish), displacement phenomena discussed in relation with richness of morphology (with special attention to English, German/Dutch, and Norwegian, as well as presenting more general discussion of the issue), language variation and change (studying historical English syntax and Frisian contact dialects), and the syntax-semantics interface viewed from a Germanic perspective (addressing ellipsis, reflexivity, and the behavior of quantifiers).