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Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195359251
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic LanguagesDDC classification:
  • 435
LOC classification:
  • PD271.V55 1995
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- I. PRELIMINARIES -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 The Germanic languages -- 1.3 Language acquisition and the theory of UG -- 2. Relativised Minimality -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 A-bar-movement -- 2.3 A-movement -- 2.4 X&amp -- #176 -- -movement -- 2.5 Restrictions on movement -- II. VERB MOVEMENT -- 3. Verb Second -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Verb second-movement of the finite verb into C&amp -- #176 -- -- 3.3 Verb second variations -- 3.4 Verb second explanations -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4. Verb Second in Embedded Clauses -- 4.1 Verb second preceded by a complementiser -- 4.2 Three alternative analyses of general embedded V2 -- 4.3 V1 declaratives -- 4.4 Relative positions of the subject and the sentential adverbial -- 4.5 Object shift -- 4.6 Subject-verb agreement -- 4.7 Adverbial adjunction to IP but not to CP -- 4.8 Extraction from the embedded clause -- 4.9 Embedded clauses introduced by which-that or if-that -- 4.10 Embedded V2 in Danish: CP-recursion or topicalisation to AgrP-spec? -- 4.11 Conclusion -- 5. V&amp -- #176 -- -to-I&amp -- #176 -- Movement -- 5.1 Inflection -- 5.2 I&amp -- #176 -- -VP languages with V&amp -- #176 -- -to-I&amp -- #176 -- movement -- 5.3 I&amp -- #176 -- -VP languages without V&amp -- #176 -- -to-I&amp -- #176 -- movement -- 5.4 VP-I&amp -- #176 -- languages -- 5.5 Connection between V2 and V&amp -- #176 -- -to-I&amp -- #176 -- movement -- 5.6 Conclusion -- III. EXPLETIVE SUBJECTS -- 6. NP-Positions in Expletive Constructions -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Licensing of IP-spec by C&amp -- #176 -- or by I&amp -- #176 -- -- 6.3 Licensing of VP-spec -- 6.4 Licensing of the complement of V&amp -- #176 -- -- 6.5 Licensing of IP-spec by a main V&amp -- #176 -- -- 6.6 Alternative analyses -- 6.7 Conclusion -- 7. Expletive Subjects and Quasi-Arguments -- 7.1 Introduction.
7.2 It, there, and case assignment -- 7.3 Raising constructions -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion -- 8.1 Summary -- 8.2 Last words -- References -- Language Index -- A -- B -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- W -- Y -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
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Intro -- Contents -- I. PRELIMINARIES -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 The Germanic languages -- 1.3 Language acquisition and the theory of UG -- 2. Relativised Minimality -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 A-bar-movement -- 2.3 A-movement -- 2.4 X&amp -- #176 -- -movement -- 2.5 Restrictions on movement -- II. VERB MOVEMENT -- 3. Verb Second -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Verb second-movement of the finite verb into C&amp -- #176 -- -- 3.3 Verb second variations -- 3.4 Verb second explanations -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4. Verb Second in Embedded Clauses -- 4.1 Verb second preceded by a complementiser -- 4.2 Three alternative analyses of general embedded V2 -- 4.3 V1 declaratives -- 4.4 Relative positions of the subject and the sentential adverbial -- 4.5 Object shift -- 4.6 Subject-verb agreement -- 4.7 Adverbial adjunction to IP but not to CP -- 4.8 Extraction from the embedded clause -- 4.9 Embedded clauses introduced by which-that or if-that -- 4.10 Embedded V2 in Danish: CP-recursion or topicalisation to AgrP-spec? -- 4.11 Conclusion -- 5. V&amp -- #176 -- -to-I&amp -- #176 -- Movement -- 5.1 Inflection -- 5.2 I&amp -- #176 -- -VP languages with V&amp -- #176 -- -to-I&amp -- #176 -- movement -- 5.3 I&amp -- #176 -- -VP languages without V&amp -- #176 -- -to-I&amp -- #176 -- movement -- 5.4 VP-I&amp -- #176 -- languages -- 5.5 Connection between V2 and V&amp -- #176 -- -to-I&amp -- #176 -- movement -- 5.6 Conclusion -- III. EXPLETIVE SUBJECTS -- 6. NP-Positions in Expletive Constructions -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Licensing of IP-spec by C&amp -- #176 -- or by I&amp -- #176 -- -- 6.3 Licensing of VP-spec -- 6.4 Licensing of the complement of V&amp -- #176 -- -- 6.5 Licensing of IP-spec by a main V&amp -- #176 -- -- 6.6 Alternative analyses -- 6.7 Conclusion -- 7. Expletive Subjects and Quasi-Arguments -- 7.1 Introduction.

7.2 It, there, and case assignment -- 7.3 Raising constructions -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion -- 8.1 Summary -- 8.2 Last words -- References -- Language Index -- A -- B -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- W -- Y -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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