Berman book

[Tracy Holloway King]

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.
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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.