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Clause structure and word order in the history of German / Agnes Jäger, Gisella Ferraresi, and Helmut Weiss

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Additional Creators
Jäger, Agnes, Ferraresi, Gisella, and Weiss, Helmut, 1961-
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction / Helmut Weiß -- pt. I The Left Periphery -- 2.Introduction to Part I / Svetlana Petrova -- 3.Origins of verb-second in Old High German / Katrin Axel-Tober -- 4.Verb-initial declaratives in Old High German and in later German / Svetlana Petrova -- 5.The prefield after the Old High German period / Helmut Weiß -- 6.Adverbial connectives / Gisella Ferraresi -- pt. II The Middle Field -- 7.Introduction to Part II / Agnes Jager -- 8.The Wackernagel complex and pronoun raising / Helmut Weiß -- 9.Serialization of full noun phrases in the history of German / Augustin Speyer -- 10.History of negation in High and Low German / Agnes Jager -- pt. III The Right Periphery -- 11.Introduction to Part III / Eric Fuß -- 12.The OV/VO alternation in Early German: Diagnostics for basic word order / Eric Fuß -- 13.OV versus VO in Old High German: The case of thaz-clauses / Helmut Weiß -- 14.Prosodic and information-structural factors in word order variation / Svetlana Petrova -- 15.Periphrastic verb forms / Augustin Speyer -- 16.On the history of the IPP construction in German / Agnes Jager -- 17.The ACI construction in the history of German / Augustin Speyer.
Summary
This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into multiple central aspects of clause structure and word order, including verb placement, adverbial connectives, pronominal syntax, and information-structural factors.
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9780191851414 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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