Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and Diachronic

✍ Scribed by Rosina Lippi-Green, Joe Salmons

• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Series: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 137
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents 10 revised and expanded papers selected from a Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable which focused on syntax and historical linguistics. The authors start from current theoretical discussions in syntactic and diachronic research, using theory to address longstanding problems in Germanic linguistics, from clitic placement and verb-second phenomena through the "Verscharfung" to the Twaddellian view of "umlaut". Each contribution relies on data situated in the relevant comparative context, Germanic, Indo-European and cross-linguistic.

✦ Table of Contents

GERMANIC LINGUISTICS SYNTACTIC AND DIACHRONIC
......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page
......Page 5
Table of contents
......Page 6
FOREWORD......Page 8
1. Purpose......Page 10
2. CLs in Romance and Slavic languages......Page 11
3. Pronominal forms in Standard German and its dialects......Page 13
5. The special structure of the German (and Dutch) 'middle field'......Page 15
6. Agreement as pronoun incorporation......Page 20
REFERENCES......Page 21
1. Introduction......Page 24
2. Stative Verbs......Page 28
2.1 Duration......Page 30
2.2 Control......Page 31
2.3 Avoidance of Ambiguity......Page 35
2.3.1 German mögen......Page 36
2.3.2 English must and be bound to......Page 37
3. The Progressive......Page 39
4. Past Infinitive......Page 40
REFERENCES......Page 42
0. Introduction......Page 44
1. Yiddish Syntax......Page 45
2. Unifying Yiddish and German......Page 48
2.1 Evidence for V-to-I in Germanic......Page 49
2.2 Zwart 1993 on AgrsP in Dutch
......Page 50
2.2.2 Subject-object asymmetries in German......Page 52
2.2.3 Clause Subjunction in German......Page 53
2.2.4 The Properties of es in German......Page 54
2.2.5 A cross-Germanic subject-object as
ymmetry......Page 56
3.1 Topicalization in Yiddish......Page 57
3.2 Wh-questions in German......Page 58
3.3.1 Lack of AGR to COMP in Yiddish......Page 59
3.3.2 Expletive es and syntactic saturation in Germanic......Page 63
3.3.4 Verb second, mood markers and economy of derivation......Page 65
4. Summary and conclusion......Page 67
REFERENCES......Page 69
1. Introduction......Page 74
2. Evidence against previous analyses of er......Page 76
3. Er as a licenser for pro......Page 78
4. The absence of Unaccusative Movement in Dutch......Page 80
5. The unaccusative data......Page 81
7. Preposed Datives......Page 85
8. Locative prepositional phrase......Page 87
9. Prepositional er and quantitative er......Page 89
REFERENCES......Page 91
THE ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVEIN THE HISTORY OF GERMAN
......Page 94
REFERENCES......Page 111
2. Proposed Explanations for Verschärfung......Page 112
4. Verschärfung and Syllable Contact......Page 114
5. Laryngeals and Compensatory Lengthening......Page 117
6. Other Instances of Strengthening in Germanic......Page 125
7. Conclusion and Implications......Page 126
REFERENCES......Page 127
GERMANIC CLASS IV AND V PRETERITS
......Page 130
REFERENCES......Page 143
GERMANIC IN EARLY ROMAN TIMES......Page 146
REFERENCES......Page 154
1. Introduction......Page 158
1.1 Major Yiddish Dialects: An overview......Page 159
2. Palatalized consonants in Yiddish......Page 161
3. Types of I in (Central) Yiddish......Page 162
4. Possible Polish source for variants of 1 in CY......Page 164
5. The lexical phonology of l-palatalization in CY......Page 168
6. Conclusion......Page 174
REFERENCES......Page 175
2. Twaddell......Page 178
2.1 The Reception of Twaddell......Page 179
3. Voyles......Page 182
3.1 Problems with Voyles's account......Page 183
4. Conclusions......Page 188
REFERENCES......Page 189
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 194
LANGUAGE INDEX......Page 196
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 198