Clausal architecture and subject positions : impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages /

Clausal architecture and subject positions : impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages /

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Author / Creator:	Mohr, Sabine, 1970-
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2005.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 207 pages)
Language:	English German
Series:	Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 88 Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 88.
Subject:	Germanic languages -- Clauses. Germanic languages -- Grammar, Comparative. Germanic languages -- Word order. Germanic languages -- Clauses. Germanic languages -- Grammar, Comparative. Germanic languages -- Word order. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11160740

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ISBN:	9789027293992 9027293996 9789027233523 9027233527 9027233527 1282156284 9781282156289 9786612156281 6612156287
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-204) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Mohr, Sabine, 1970- Clausal architecture and subject positions. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2005

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Acknowledgements
2. I. Introduction
3. 0. Introduction
4. II. Clausal architecture and the EPP
5. 1. Subject positions and the EPP
6. 2. The EPP and the Extension Condition
7. 3. Clause structure
8. 4. Checking
9. 5. The 'universal EPP' on T
10. 6. Summary
11. III. Impersonal constructions and subject positions
12. 7. The constructions to be discussed and previous accounts
13. 8. The derivation of presentational sentences and impersonal passives
14. 9. Constructions involving quasi-arguments (or not)
15. 10. Summary
16. IV. Conclusion
17. 11. Conclusion
18. References
19. Index