German: Syntactic Problems - Problematic Syntax

Elly Van Gelderen

ISBN 10: 3484303743 / ISBN 13: 9783484303744

Published by De Gruyter, De Gruyter Dez 1997, 1997

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The volume assembles eleven articles presenting a linguistic approach to the grammar of German, English and the diachronic forerunners of English. Common to all is a theoretical discussion against the background of Chomskyan minimalism (1993) and more recent developments of it (Kayne 1993, Chomsky 1995), all of which make language typology comparisons an interesting proposition. Some of the articles are critical of certain aspects of these theoretical approaches. For all their claims to descriptive universality, it transpires that they fail to address a number of features specific to German.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 332 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: German: Syntactic Problems - Problematic Syntax
• Publisher: De Gruyter, De Gruyter Dez 1997
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3484303743
• ISBN 13: 9783484303744
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 175H x 24D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 175 millimeters height by 24 millimeters depth
• Weight: 744 grams

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The volume assembles eleven articles presenting a linguistic approach to the grammar of German, English and the diachronic forerunners of English. Common to all is a theoretical discussion against the background of Chomskyan minimalism (1993) and more recent developments of it (Kayne 1993, Chomsky 1995), all of which make language typology comparisons an interesting proposition. Some of the articles are critical of certain aspects of these theoretical approaches. For all their claims to descriptive universality, it transpires that they fail to address a number of features specific to German.