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The syntax of Dutch
\"Dutch is a West-Germanic language closely related to English and German, but its special properties have long aroused interest and debate among students of syntax. This is an informative guide to the syntax of Dutch, offering an extensive survey of both the phenomena of Dutch syntax and their theoretical analyses over the years. In particular the book discusses those aspects of Dutch syntax that have played an important role in the development of syntactic theory in recent decades. Presupposing only a basic knowledge of syntax and complete with an extensive bibliography, this survey will be an important tool for students and linguists of all theoretical persuasions, and for anyone working in Germanic linguistics, linguistic typology and linguistic theory\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Syntax of Dutch
Part of the larger Syntax of Dutch series, this volume focuses on the internal makeup and distribution of adpositional phrases in Dutch. It covers such topics as complementation and modification of adpositional phrases, as well as their predicative, attributive, and adverbial uses.
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Gaps and dummies
The assumption that clauses must have a subject is present in most, if not all, linguistic theories. In GB theory the requirement that clauses have a subject is stipulated as a consequence of the base rules or the Extended Projection Principle. In this book it is claimed that no such stipulation is necessary. The presence of a subject is exclusively determined by the theories of thematic roles and Case.
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Syntactic change in Germanic : aspects of language change in Germanic with particular reference to Middle Dutch
This study examines certain features of Dutch syntax between approximately 1300 and 1650. Of central importance are the overall developments in the word order patterning and the various changes they entail elsewhere in the grammar, such as in the negative construction. After an introductory chapter providing goals and background for the study, the quantitative analysis of the data is presented in Chapter 2. Considerable attention is paid to contextual considerations and the pragmatic aspect of word order. Chapter 3 deals specifically with the question of exbraciation; Chapter 4 returns to the functional aspect of word order and discusses the importance of the notion 'topic'. Chapter 5 provides a detailed analysis of the development of negation supported by comparative data from related Germanic languages and in a wider context of overall typological change. The concluding chapter discusses possible explanations of the findings. Two Appendices are added to the book, one providing a sketch grammar of Dutch, the other an annotated list of the corpus used. This study is purposefully eclectic in its approach, drawing upon many different traditions and areas in linguistics. This multifaceted approach is a major strength of the book, which moreover makes an important contribution to theoretical issues by presenting a vast descriptive data base for Dutch.
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Bi-directionality at the PF-Interface: Explaining Adjunction Stress Patterns in West Germanic
Theories regarding the connection between prosodic stress assignment and phrasal hierarchy abound in modern linguistic studies. The counter-cyclic behavior of adjunction structures (Late Adjunction Hypothesis - Lebeaux 1988) poses a problem for most accounts of prosodic mapping parasitically acting upon syntactic-generated structures. Feng's bi-directional model of prosody-syntax interaction (2003b) accounts for the intricate relationship between prosodic stress assignment and late adjunction structure in West Germanic in a parsimonious fashion unachieved by recent amendments to the Nuclear Stress Rule (Cinque 1993, Zubizarreta 1998). Furthermore, it is argued that Nachfeld adjuncts, i.e., adjunction structures that appear after the lowest VP in an SOV language, can be assigned prosodic prominence contra the Structural Removing Condition (Feng 2003a).
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Syntax of Dutch
The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics.
The volume Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases discusses the internal make-up and the distribution of adpositional phrases. Topics that are covered include complementation and modification of adpositional phrases, as well as their predicative, attributive and adverbial uses. A separate chapter is devoted to the formation and the syntactic behavior of pronominal PPs like erop 'on it', which also includes a more general discussion of the syntax of so-called R-words like er 'there'.
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