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Clitics in the languages of Europe
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ISBN: 3110157519 3110804018 Year: 1999 Volume: 20-5 Publisher: Berlin New York Mouton de Gruyter


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Green ideas blown up : papers from the Amsterdam colloquium on trace theory
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Year: 1976 Publisher: Amsterdam : Universiteit van Amsterdam. Instituut voor algemene taalwetenschap,

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Semi-lexical categories: the function of content words and the content of function words
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ISBN: 3110874008 3110166852 3111786129 9783110874006 9783110166859 9783110166859 Year: 2001 Volume: 59 Publisher: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter

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The distinction between functional categories and lexical categories is at the heart of present-day grammatical theory, in theories on language acquisition, code-switching and aphasia. At the same time, it has become clear, however, that there are many lexical items for which it is less easy to decide whether they side with the lexical categories or the functional ones. This book deals with the grammatical behavior of such in- between-categories, which are referred to here as "semi-lexical categories".

Triggers
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ISBN: 9783110197433 311019743X 9783110181395 3110181398 3110181398 1283396491 9781283396493 9786613396495 6613396494 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter

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The concept of 'trigger' is a core concept of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. The idea that certain types of movement are triggered by some property of the target position is at least as old as the notion that the movement of noun phrases to the subject position is triggered by their need to receive nominative case. In more recent versions of syntactic theory, triggering mechanisms are thought to regulate all of movement. Furthermore, a quite narrow range of triggering mechanisms is permitted. As is to be expected, such a restrictive approach meets a variety of difficulties. Specifically, the question is whether all triggering elements required to cover displacement of all kinds in natural language can be independently motivated. Further, how can a trigger theory, which crucially relies on the idea that all movement is obligatory, deal with apparently optional movement processes? Are features an adequate means to express the triggering function in all cases? More radically, are all movement phenomena really the result of the checking of trigger features? And what about apparent triggering factors that are 'external' to syntax such as prosody - can they be captured in a rigid trigger theory? In other words, could certain aspects of triggered movement be due to interface conditions? Such is the range of questions addressed by the fourteen contributions to this book. They cover a considerable range of languages (including Afrikaans, Breton, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Gungbe, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, Romanian). These papers present materials, both empirical and theoretical, that will not fail to have considerable impact on the further development of the concept of trigger in syntactic theory.

Materials on left dislocation
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ISBN: 9027227357 1556192339 9027282366 9786613234247 1283234246 9789027282361 9781556192333 9789027227355 9027227557 Year: 1997 Volume: 14 Publisher: Amsterdam [etc.] : John Benjamins,

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Materials on Left Dislocation consists of two parts. Part I contains a selection of the main texts on which our present understanding of the Left Dislocation construction is based. For various reasons most of these texts had never been published, or are published in obsolete places. These articles, by Van Riemsdijk & Zwarts, Rodman, Hirschbuehler, Vat, Cinque and Zaenen, contain the first arguments that pertain to the major questions about Left Dislocation (for example whether movement or base-generation is involved), and they present the rationale for the now standard distinctions betw

Verb clusters : a study of Hungarian, German and Dutch
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ISBN: 9027227934 1588115070 9786612160516 1282160516 902729559X 9789027227935 9789027295590 9781282160514 6612160519 Year: 2004 Volume: 69 69 Publisher: Amsterdam: Benjamins,

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Many languages have constructions in which verbs cluster. But few languages have verb clusters as rich and complex as Continental West Germanic and Hungarian. Furthermore the precise ordering properties and the variation in the cluster patterns are remarkably similar in Hungarian and Germanic. This similarity is, of course, unexpected since Hungarian is not an Indo-European language like the Germanic language group. Instead it appears that the clustering, inversion and roll-up patterns found may constitute an areal feature. This book presents the relevant language data in considerable detail, taking into account also the variation observed, for example, among dialects. But it also discusses the various analytical approaches that can be brought to bear on this set of phenomena. In particular, there are various hypotheses as to what is the underlying driving force behind cluster formation: stress patterns, aspectual features, morpho- syntactic constraints? And the analytical approaches are closely linked to a number of questions that are at the core of current syntactic theorizing: does head movement exist or should all apparent verb displacement be reduced to remnant movement, are morphology and syntax really just different sides of the same coin?

Introduction to the theory of grammar
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ISBN: 0262220288 0262720094 Year: 1986 Volume: 12 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.

Studies on scrambling: movement and non-movement approaches to free word-order phenomena
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ISBN: 3110135728 3110857219 Year: 1994 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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