Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027257159 ISBN 13: 9789027257154

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016

Synopsis

This book deals with sentential proforms and their relationship to their associated clauses. Sentential proforms are highly interesting from the point of view of grammatical theory, since their occurrence is determined not only by syntax, but also by prosody and semantics. The present volume contributes to a better understanding of the interfaces between these different levels. By providing syntactic, prosodic, semantic, psycholinguistic and corpus-based support, this book underpins the claim that there exist different sentential proform types in German and Dutch, that these proform types correlate with different verb classes, and that their associated related clauses are located in different syntactic positions. The present volume also looks at a Hungarian sentential proform construction, which is similar to the German(ic) structure, but, at the same time, is different in its licensing conditions.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027257159
• ISBN 13: 9789027257154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Frey Werner, Meinunger André, Schwabe Kerstin