31.1201, Books: Verb Second: Lohnstein, Tsiknakis (eds.)

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Subject: 31.1201, Books: Verb Second: Lohnstein, Tsiknakis (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:43:28
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Verb Second: Lohnstein, Tsiknakis (eds.)

 


Title: Verb Second 
Subtitle: Grammar Internal and Grammar External Interfaces 
Series Title: Interface Explorations [IE]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/2Q75dHd 


Editor: Horst Lohnstein
Editor: Antonios Tsiknakis

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501516580 Pages: 451 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

This book addresses a general phenomenon in the European languages: verb
second. The articles provide a comprehensive survey of synchronic vs.
diachronic developments in the Germanic and Romance languages.

New theoretical insights into the interaction of the properties of verbal mood
and syntactic structure building lead to hypotheses about the mutual influence
of these systems. The diachronic change in the syntax together with changes in
the inflectional system show the interdependence between the syntactic and the
inflectional component.

The fact that the subjunctive can license verb second in dependent clauses
reveals further dependencies between these subsystems of grammar. "Fronting
finiteness" furthermore constitutes an instance of a main clause phenomenon.
Whether "assertion" or "at-issueness" are encoded through this grammatical
process will be a matter in the debates discussed in the book. Moreover,
information structure appears to be directly related to the fronting of other
constituents in front of the finite verb. Questions concerning the
interrelations between these various subcomponents of the grammatical system
are investigated.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Germanic
                      Romance 


Written In: English  (eng)

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