Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German

Jäger, Agnes (Editor)/ Ferraresi, Gisella (Editor)/ Weiss, Helmut (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0198813546 / ISBN 13: 9780198813545

Published by Oxford Univ Pr, 2018

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480 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198813546
• ISBN 13: 9780198813545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.81 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Agnes Jäger is Professor of Historical German Linguistics at the University of Cologne. Her research interests include diachronic syntax and its interfaces with semantics and morphology, dialectal variation, and theories of language change. She is the author of History of German Negation (Benjamins 2008) and of Vergleichskonstruktionen im Deutschen: Diachroner Wandel und synchrone Variation (de Gruyter 2018), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters on the topics of negation, indefinites, and comparatives, among others. She is the co-editor, with Chiara Gianollo and Doris Penka, of Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface (de Gruyter 2015).