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Zusatztext Review from previous edition 'An important contribution to the exploration of Germanic syntax within the theoretical assumptions of HPSG (Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar) ... the book builds a bridge of communication between different research camps and gives linguists without a Germanic background access to the classical insights of topological theory! whose merits! as we see! have come an exceptionally long way.' Informationen zum Autor Andreas Kathol is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley. He obtained his Doctorate at the Ohio State University (1995) and held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Groningen (1995-6). Klappentext This volume makes a case for a critical reassessment of the wide-spread view that syntax can be reduced to tree structures! arguing for concepts that are defined in terms of linear order. By connecting the descriptive tools of modern phrase-structure grammar with traditional descriptive scholarship! Andreas Kathol offers a new perspective on many long-standing problems in syntactic theory. Zusammenfassung Makes a case for a critical reassessment of the view that syntax can be reduced to tree structures. Arguing that a crucial part of the description of German clausal syntax should be based on concepts that are defined in terms of linear order, this book connects the tools of modern phrase-structure grammar with traditional descriptive scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introductory Remarks 2: Some Basic Concepts of HPSG 3: Formal Models of Syntactic Discontinuity 4: Topological Fields 5: Complementizers and Verb Placement 6: Left-Peripheral Structures 7: Sentence Type Determination 8: Syntax of the Verb Cluster 9: Beyond German References
