Verb Second Phenomena in Germanic Languages
Author: Hubert Haider
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-05-07
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 3110846071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hubert Haider
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-05-07
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 3110846071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hubert Haider
Publisher: Foris Publications USA
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9789067651349
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Federica Cognola
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2013-01-17
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9027272441
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mòcheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery; on pro licensing and on the distribution of OV/VO word orders, the author refutes the traditional view that the syntactic variation found in Mòcheno is due to the presence of two competing grammars as a consequence of contact with Romance varieties and accounts for the peculiarities of Mòcheno syntax within a theory couched in the framework of Generative Grammar. This book contributes to our understanding of the verb-second phenomenon and sheds new light on the asymmetries between Old Romance and Germanic verb-second languages. A useful tool for all linguists working on both theoretical and comparative syntax and to anyone interested in language variation, dialectology and typology.
Author: Katrin Axel
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2007-07-19
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9027291985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre-verb-second grammar by answering the following questions: To what extent did generalized verb movement exist in Old High German? Was there already obligatory XP-movement to the left periphery in declarative root clauses? What deviations from the linear verb-second restriction are attested and what do such phenomena reveal about the structure of the left sentence periphery? Did verb placement play the same role in sentence typing as in the modern verb-second languages? A further major topic is null subjects: It is claimed that Old High German was a partial pro-drop language. All these issues are addressed from a comparative-diachronic perspective by integrating research on other Old Germanic languages, in particular on Old English and Gothic. This book is of interest to all those working in the fields of comparative Germanic syntax and historical linguistics.
Author: Sten Vikner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995-04-13
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0195359259
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the study of two different kinds of variation across the Germanic languages. One involves the position of the finite verb, and the other the possible positions of the "logical" subject in constructions with expletive (or "dummy") subjects. The book applies the theory of Principles-and-Parameters to the study of comparative syntax. Several languages are considered, including less frequently discussed ones like Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, and Yiddish.
Author: Rebecca Woods
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-03-25
Total Pages: 928
ISBN-13: 0192582577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.
Author: Horst Lohnstein
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-03-09
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1501508148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book addresses a general phenomenon in the European languages: verb second. The articles provide a comprehensive survey of synchronic vs. diachronic developments in the Germanic and Romance languages. New theoretical insights into the interaction of the properties of verbal mood and syntactic structure building lead to hypotheses about the mutual influence of these systems. The diachronic change in the syntax together with changes in the inflectional system show the interdependence between the syntactic and the inflectional component. The fact that the subjunctive can license verb second in dependent clauses reveals further dependencies between these subsystems of grammar. "Fronting finiteness" furthermore constitutes an instance of a main clause phenomenon. Whether "assertion" or "at-issueness" are encoded through this grammatical process will be a matter in the debates discussed in the book. Moreover, information structure appears to be directly related to the fronting of other constituents in front of the finite verb. Questions concerning the interrelations between these various subcomponents of the grammatical system are investigated.
Author: Lars Hellan
Publisher: D. Reidel
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9789027721679
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Constantin Freitag
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 3110725010
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This series publishes original contributions which describe and theoretically analyze structures of natural languages. The main focus is on principles and rules of grammatical and lexical knowledge both with respect to individual languages and from a comparative perspective. The volumes cover all levels of linguistic analysis, especially phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, including aspects of language acquisition, language use, language change, and phonetical and neuronal realization.