The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories
- Editor(s): Marcel den Dikken 1 and Christina Tortora 2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 The Graduate Center, The City University of New York2 The College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date August 2005
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027294333
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/la.78
This volume brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the syntax of function words and functional categories in the Germanic languages. The works offered in this volume derive specifically from comparative studies of Germanic; at the same time they all bear directly on long-standing problems in syntactic theory and universal grammar. The contributions include novel theoretical and empirical approaches to infinitives, the syntax and acquisition of Verb Second, the structure and interpretation of present tense, the syntax and semantics of reflexives, the relationship between expletive syntax and the EPP, the syntax of possession, and the DP-internal syntax of pronouns. Some contributions present the results of experimental research which provide an entirely fresh perspective on previously unchallenged claims.
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