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This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Polish, and Russian), stemming from the Syntax Session of the 2006 PLM conference in Poznan (Poland). Gisbert Fanselow and Caroline Féry discuss lack of Superiority with German movement; Gereon Müller links pro-drop to non-impoverished inflectional morphology; Christopher Wilder deals with English constructions with a directional locative and imperative; Adam Bialy decomposes event structure; Katarzyna Sówka analyses the semantics of German verbs of giving; Ewa Bulat takes a fresh look at null subjects; Helen Trugman presents the distribution of adnominal adjectives in Russian; Agnieszka Pysz explores the same issue in Old English; Bozena Cetnarowska employs OT to describe possessives in Polish; Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen and Pawel Scheffler compare Polish and Italian reversible verbs; Radek Simik describes different relative pronouns in Czech; Mojmir Docekal discusses lack of WCO effects in Czech; Michael Moss argues for a complex structure of the Polish clause, and Jacek Witkos demonstrates that control-as-movement penetrates CPs.
List of contents
Contents: Adam Bialy: Results and feature specification of Polish prefixes - Ewa Bulat: Empty subjects revisited and revised cross-linguistically - Bozena Cetnarowska: Genitive/possessive variation and syntactic optionality in an optimality-theoretic framework - Mojmír Docekal: WCO and focus in Czech - Gisbert Fanselow/Caroline Féry: Missing superiority effects: Long movement in German (and other languages) - Katarzyna Miechowicz- Mathiasen/Pawel Scheffler: A corpus-based analysis of the peculiar behaviour of the Polish verb podobac sie - Michael Moss: Functional projections in Polish - Gereon Müller: Some consequences of an impoverishment-based approach to morphological richness and Pro-Drop - Agnieszka Pysz: On the placement of prenominal adjectives with complements: Evidence from Old English - Radek Simík: Specificity in (Czech) relative clauses - Katarzyna Sówka: Non-uniform approach to dative verbs in English - Helen Trugman: Move versus merge: DP-internal modifiers - Christopher Wilder: The PP-with-DP construction - Jacek Witkos: Control and predicative adjectives in Polish.
About the author
The Editors: Jacek Witkö is Professor of English Linguistics employed in the School of English of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä (Poland). His research interests include general linguistics, generative linguistics and the comparative Polish-English grammar.
Gisbert Fanselow is Professor of Syntax at the University of Potsdam (Germany). His research interests include generative syntax and psycholinguistics.
