Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages

By: Sten Vikner

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Paperback | 1 June 1997

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This book is the study of two different kinds of variation across the Germanic languages. One involves the position of the finite verb, and the other the possible positions of the "logical" subject in constructions with expletive (or "dummy") subjects. The book applies the theory of principles and parameters (also known as the "government-binding theory") to the study of comparative syntax. Several languages are considered, including less frequently discussed ones like Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, and Yiddish.

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"An important contribution to research on empirical and analytical issues in the center of theoretical debate. The scholarship is copiously, carefully, and clearly presented and is scrupulously up-to-date and thorough."--Ken Safir, Rutgers University "An important contribution to research on empirical and analytical issues in the center of theoretical debate. The scholarship is copiously, carefully, and clearly presented and is scrupulously up-to-date and thorough."--Ken Safir, Rutgers University "The book, as easy and pleasant to read as it is intellectually stimulating, is a masterpiece of scholarship, and will remain one of the truly seminal works in the field of Germanic linguistics."--American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures

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Acknowledgments	p. v
Preliminaries	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Relativised Minimality	p. 11
Verb Movement	p. 37
Verb Second	p. 39
Verb Second in Embedded Clauses	p. 65
V&U2218-To-I&U2218 Movement	p. 131
Expletive Subjects	p. 165
Np-Positions in Expletive Constructions	p. 167
Expletive Subjects and Quasi-Arguments	p. 224
Conclusion	p. 269
References	p. 273
Language Index	p. 283
Name Index	p. 285
Subject Index	p. 288
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