Announcing: CLAUSAL SYNTAX OF GERMAN

[Christine Sosa]

CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of:

CLAUSAL SYNTAX OF GERMAN, Judither Berman (University of Bochum);
paper ISBN: 1-57586-362-6, $25.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-361-8, $70.00,
200 pages, copyright 2003 by CSLI Publications.
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu , email: pubs at csli.stanford.edu.

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Book description:

Clausal Syntax of German is the first large-scale treatment of German
syntax in the framework of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG).
Addressing both empirical and theoretical concerns, this book
examines  well-known yet still controversial phenomena that pose
specific  challenges for LFG.  In LFG, syntactic functions can be
identified by  morphology instead of being derived from phrase
structure  configurations.  This makes LFG well-suited for analyzing
German, a  language with relatively free word order and a relatively
rich morphology.  The author applies LFG principles to three main
areas of theoretical interest: subjects, traces, and complement
clauses. In doing so, the author analyzes central topics of German
syntax including phrase structure, "subjectless" clauses, expletives,
agreement, weak crossover, long-distance dependencies, the
distribution of subordinated clauses, correlative pronouns, and
embedded clauses.

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