Morphology-driven syntax : a theory of V to I raising and pro-drop /

This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive expleti...

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Main Author: Rohrbacher, Bernhard Wolfgang
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©1999.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 15.
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