Eintrag

Titel

Uncharted territory? Towards a non-cartographic account of Germanic syntax

Personen

C. Jan-Wouter Zwart

Jahr

2009

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Seiten

59 - 84

In

Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax

Schlagwörter

Syntax

Abstract

This article discusses the consequences of a strictly derivational approach¿where syntactic relations are construed dynamically as the derivation proceeds¿to the analysis of key areas of Germanic syntax. It discusses the nature of syntactic positions from a non-cartographic point of view. Evidence supporting a non-cartographic approach is found in word order transitivity failures in various domains (the left periphery, the order of adverbs, the adjective-noun construction). The implications of a non-cartographic approach are discussed in four key areas of Germanic syntax (the fine structure of the left periphery, topicalization/focalization, subject placement and object placement).

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