Broschiertes Buch

Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View

Papers on Topical Issues in Syntax and Morphosyntax

Herausgegeben: Witkos, Jacek; Fanselow, Gisbert

Beschreibung

This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Polish, and Russian), stemming from the Syntax Session of the 2006 PLM conference in Poznan (Poland). Gisbert Fanselow and Caroline Féry discuss lack of Superiority with German movement; Gereon Müller links pro-drop to non-impoverished inflectional morphology; Christopher Wilder deals with English constructions with a directional locative and imperative; Adam Bialy decomposes event structure; Katarzyna Sówka analyses the semantics of German verbs of giving; Ewa Bulat takes a fresh look at null subjects; Helen Trugman presents the distribution of adnominal adjectives in Russian; Agnieszka Pysz explores the same issue in Old English; Bozena Cetnarowska employs OT to describe possessives in Polish; Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen and Pawel Scheffler compare Polish and Italian reversible verbs; Radek Simik describes different relative pronounsin Czech; Mojmir Docekal discusses lack of WCO effects in Czech; Michael Moss argues for a complex structure of the Polish clause, and Jacek Witkos demonstrates that control-as-movement penetrates CPs.

Autor

The Editors: Jacek Witkö is Professor of English Linguistics employed in the School of English of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä (Poland). His research interests include general linguistics, generative linguistics and the comparative Polish-English grammar. Gisbert Fanselow is Professor of Syntax at the University of Potsdam (Germany). His research interests include generative syntax and psycholinguistics.

Produktdetails

• Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature 23
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 57857
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9783631578575
• ISBN-10: 3631578571
• Artikelnr.: 27782683