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ISBN: | 1601299400 9781601299406 9780195359251 0195359259 9786610443604 6610443602 0195083946 0195083938 9780195083941 9780195083934
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | 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.
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Other form: | Print version: Vikner, Sten. Verb movement and expletive subjects in the Germanic languages. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
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