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ISBN: | 9789027292636 9027292639 902723373X 9789027233738 9789027233738 1282154753 9781282154759 9786612154751 6612154756
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | 'Scrambling', the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic 'Object Shift'. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. Given that its main conclusions are drawn from German data, it also sheds light on several problematic aspects of the grammar of this language, which have traditionally resisted a principled account. Prominent among these are: the inconsistent behaviour of German coherent infinitives with respect t.
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Other form: | Print version: Chocano, Gema. Narrow syntax and phonological form. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2007
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