Part of the larger Syntax of Dutch series, this volume focuses on the internal makeup and distribution of adpositional phrases in Dutch. It covers such topics as complementation and modification of ad
Go beyond conjugation and learn the right verb tenses for speaking and writing in GermanIf you are looking for help memorizing German verb conjugations, then any German verb book will do. But if you a
In this illuminating new theory of grammar, Hubert Haider demonstrates that there is a basic asymmetry in the phrase structure of any language, whatever sentence structure it takes. Moreover, he argues that understanding this asymmetry is the key to understanding the grammatical causality underlying a broad range of core syntactic phenomena. Until now, Germanic languages have been seen to fall into two distinct classes: those which take an object-verb sentence structure (OV) or a verb-object one (VO). However, by examining the nature of this universal underlying asymmetry, Hubert Haider reveals a third syntactic type: 'Type III'. In particular, he employs the third type to explore the cognitive evolution of grammar which gave rise to the structural asymmetry and its typological implications. Symmetry Breaking in Syntax will appeal to academic researchers and graduate students involved in comparative and theoretical syntax and the cognitive evolution of grammar.
In a slight revision of his 2011 doctoral dissertation in linguistics at Harvard University, Ott (U. of Groningen, the Netherlands) proposes a novel analysis of the so-called split-topicalization, a n
Valency grammar assumes that words, e.g. verbs, have a valency that determines the design of the construction - in the case of verbs the construction of the sentence. Construction grammar, a current d
Linguists Diewald and Smirnova, of Leibniz University, Hannover, present a thorough explanation of their argument that the German language is developing a grammatical form that expresses evidentiality
The German language, due to its verb-final nature, relatively free order of constituents and morphological Case system, poses challenges for models of human syntactic processing which have mainly been
The contributions in this volume examine a representative spectrum of phenomena in the grammaticalization of the German language. At the center of the study is the question concerning the legitimacy o
Complex Predicates examines a number of linguistic phenomena--including auxiliary and verb combinations, causative constructions, predicatives, depictive secondary predicates, and particle and verb co
Linguistic distinctions between the notions of a phrase, a word, and their components are challenged by so-called particle verbs in German and similar features in other languages. Particle verbs look
A Concise German Grammar aims to equip undergraduates with a comprehensive yet compact account of German grammar. This book is clear and accessible and contains many lively examples of modern German u