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Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 158.00This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an interaction of checking conditions, the EPP and different... more...
Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 188.00This selection of papers presented at the 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop brings together contributions that address issues in syntactic predication and studies in the nominal system, as well as papers on data from the history of English and German. Showing a strong comparative commitment, the contributions include studies on previously neglected... more...
Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 195.00This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles, V-2 and V-last, need to integrate discourse functions... more...
The Proto-Germanic n-stems
Editions Rodopi 2011; US$ 85.00The n -stems are an intriguing part of Proto-Germanic morphology. Unlike any other noun class, the n -stems have roots that are characterized by systematic consonant and vowel alternations across the different Germanic dialects. This monograph represents a diachronic investigation of this root variation. It traces back the Germanic n -stems to their... more...
Georg Philipp Harsdörffers Universalität
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00Georg Philipp Harsdörffer? lawyer, scholar and mathematician, patrician, diplomat and judge ? has in recent decades become one of the most studied Baroque authors. His work had a distinct international orientation and encompassed nearly all areas of 17th century knowledge. It thus became the fulcrum for the European literary relationships and discourse... more...
Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1998; US$ 158.00In Minimal Words in a Minimal Syntax the author combines a detailed description of the morphological structure of words in Swedish with a daring new approach to theoretical morphology, based on the Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995) (as developed for syntactic structure). The X-bar theoretic approach to word structure of the Principles and Parameters... more...
On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1983; US$ 158.00It has often been noted that Dutch (and Frisian) reflects a particular stage of development between German and English. Phonologically, syntactically and morphologically, Dutch and German are closely related languages. Yet, there remain sufficient morphosyntactic differences in terms of language development. The contributions of this collection focus... more...
The Syntax of Norwegian Passive Constructions
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 149.00This book provides an analysis of the passive phenomenon in general and of Norwegian passive constructions in particular. Related topics such as English passive constructions and Norwegian ergative constructions are also examined. The analysis is carried out within a Government and Binding framework. Chapter 1 contains a very brief introduction to... more...
Virtual Muse
Wesleyan University Press 2011; US$ 12.99A poet-programmer explores the intersection of reading, writing, and computing. more...
The Grimm Brothers and the Germanic Past
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1990; US$ 158.00The pioneering work of Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm in the areas of Germanic comparative and historical linguistics, lexicography, philology, and medieval studies places them squarely among the most important figures in the history of the language sciences. The contributions to this volume present a fascinating and timely reevaluation and reaffirmation... more...









