Susanne Wurmbrand

Infinitives

Restructuring and Clause Structure

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert

Produktdetails

• Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 55
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Reprint 2012
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9783110178647
• ISBN-10: 3110178648
• Artikelnr.: 11929746

Autorenporträt

Susanne Wurmbrand is Professor at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction

Infinitives in brief - Restructuring: its significance in history

Chapter 2: Lexical restructuring

Introduction - Case assignment in restructuring constructions - Tense properties of restructuring constructions - Other functional projections - Verb raising in restructuring constructions - Summary

Chapter 3: Functional restructuring

Introduction - The split IP parameter - Motivating the lexical/functional distinction - German functional constructions - Summary

Chapter 4: The infinitival subject

Introduction - Infinitives with and without a syntactic subject - What is under control - Conclusion

Chapter 5: Grades of (non-)restructuring

Introduction - Restructuring vs. non-restructuring - Graded (non-)restructuring - Semantic classification of infinitives

Chapter 6: Summary and conclusion

Appendix: Overview - Verb classification - Distinguishing irrealis, propositional, factive - (Non-)Restructuring properties - Verb classifications in different languages

References

Index

Rezensionen

"Wurmbrands Distributionsanalysen gehen vor allem der Idee nach, dass syntaktische Struktur und semantische Interpretation parallel laufen. Dabei verfolgt die Verafsserin eine grosse Zahl deutscher Verbeinbettungen bei Modalverben, Anhebungskonstruktionen, langer Objektversetzung und Rekonstruierungskonfigurationen. Theoretische Folgerungen ebenso wie empirische Proben am deutschen Material werden zweifellos anregende Wirkung vor allem fur Spiegelungen in anderen germanischen Sprachen haben."Werner Abraham, erkeley/Wien