Scrambling, Remnant Movement, and Restructuring in West Germanic

Klappentext In this book, Hinterholzl provides a comprehensive study of three sailent phenomena of West Germanic, namely scrambling, remnant movement and restructuring, and discusses their interrelatedness. In particular, restructuring is shown to break down into remnant movement of the major phases of the infinitival clause, accounting for the formation of verb clusters and the transparency of restructuring infinitives. Zusammenfassung In this book, Hinterholzl provides a comprehensive study of three sailent phenomena of West Germanic, namely scrambling, remnant movement and restructuring, and discusses their interrelatedness. In particular, restructuring is shown to break down into remnant movement of the major phases of the infinitival clause, accounting for the formation of verb clusters and the transparency of restructuring infinitives.

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• Authors: Roland Hinterholzl, Roland (Assistant Professor of Lingui Hinterholzl, Roland (Assistant Professor of Linguistics Hinterholzl, Roland Hinterhölzl, Hinterholzl Roland
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2006
• EAN: 9780195308204
• ISBN: 978-0-19-530820-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative; Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Germanic & Scandinavian languages, Germanic and Scandinavian languages