New Book:CONSTRAINT-BASED APPROACHES TO GERMANIC SYNTAX

[Kim Lewis Brown]

CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of our
latest title in the Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism series:

CONSTRAINT-BASED APPROACHES TO GERMANIC SYNTAX
edited by W. Detmar Meurers and  Tibor Kiss
paper ISBN: 1-57586-304-9; cloth ISBN 1-57586-303-0, 300 pages.

Book description:
A wealth of research has been conducted on the various linguistic
phenomena found in Germanic languages. But these studies were
restricted by their use of only one theoretical perspective to
analyze one particular language. Inspired by the need to expand the
research base of Germanic languages while broadening the empirical
coverage of constraint-based linguistic approaches, a handful of
researchers are employing various constraint-based theoretical
perspectives to study multiple Germanic languages.

This volume begins with an introduction to the recent research
performed on Germanic syntax using constraint-based frameworks. It
then goes on to investigate the linguistic phenomena found in the
grammar of the German and Danish languages. Using such approaches as
Lexical-Functional Grammar and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar,
contributors shed a different light on theoretical issues addressed
by past studies, including semi-free word order, partial front
phenomena, and complex predicate formation. While alternative
approaches have assumed that meaning (semantics) is dependent on form
(syntax), various analyses presented in this volume explore the idea
that both form and meaning are equally constitutive for grammatical
descriptions.

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