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Title Inner-sentential propositional proforms : syntactic properties and interpretative effects / edited by Werner Frey, André Meinunger, Kerstin Schwabe, ZAS Berlin
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

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Series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 0166-0829 ; 232
Contents Intro -- Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Sentential proforms -- 1. The outset -- 2. Recent approaches to sentential proforms and relating clauses -- 2.1 Es-proforms -- 2.1.1 Hybrid approaches -- 2.1.2 Uniform approaches -- 2.1.3 Relationship between es-items and relating clauses -- 2.2 Prepositional correlates (ProPPs) -- 2.2.1 Hybrid approaches -- 2.2.2 Uniform approaches -- 2.2.3 Relationship between ProPPs and relating clauses -- 3. Longstanding questions and new contributions -- 3.1 Correlates and pro-forms -- 3.2 Complex DP- and PP-shells and the position of the related clause -- 3.3 Missing sentential proforms -- 3.4 Influence of sentential proforms on the sentence meaning -- 3.5 Difference between es- and das-proforms -- 3.6 Proforms and corresponding complex nouns -- 3.7 Lexical entries for sentential proforms -- 3.8 Crosslinguistic variation -- 4. The chapters -- 4.1 Theoretical and empirical arguments in favor of the hybrid approach -- 4.2 Special topics of proform constructions -- References -- Correlates of object clauses in German and Dutch -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Correlate-es in German -- 3. Correlate-es as an expletive? -- 4. Syntactic properties of correlate-es -- 5. Types of matrix verbs -- 6. Information structure -- 7. Dutch -- 8. Summary and open questions -- References -- Correlative es vs. das in German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The correlative elements es/das in constructions with argument clauses -- 2.1 Grammatical differences between es and das -- 2.2 Verb-class dependency -- 3. Experimental evidence for the distinction between placeholders and pro-forms -- 3.1 Acceptability ratings of es vs. das (Experiment 1) -- 3.1.1 Material -- 3.1.2 Procedure -- 3.1.3 Participants -- 3.1.4 Results and discussion
3.2 Es vs. das in a self-paced reading study (Experiment 2) -- 3.2.1 Material -- 3.2.2 Procedure -- 3.2.3 Participants -- 3.2.4 Results and discussion -- 4. The distinction between placeholder-es- and non-placeholder-es-taking verbs: Combining corpus and experimental evidence -- 4.1 Corpus study -- 4.1.1 Procedure -- 4.1.2 Results and discussion -- 4.2 An acceptability rating experiment on the verb-class-dependent use of placeholder es vs. anaphoric es (Experiment 3) -- 4.2.1 Material and procedure -- 4.2.2 Participants -- 4.2.3 Results and discussion -- 5. Summary -- References -- Appendix -- On properties differentiating constructions with inner-sentential pro-forms for clauses -- 1. Various constructions with an inner-sentential clausal pro-form -- 2. The construction of the bedauern-class -- 3. The construction of the behaupten-class -- 4. The constructions with a prepositional adverb -- 5. The construction of the überraschen-class -- 6. Overview of the observed characteristics of the five constructions -- 7. The possibility of root phenomena in the dependent clause -- 8. Summary -- References -- Some distinctions in the right periphery of the German clause* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. A prosodic distinction between extraposition and right dislocation -- 1.1 Default stress in German -- 1.2 The prosodic effects of focus and of givenness -- 1.3 A prosodic distinction between extraposition and right dislocation/afterthought -- 1.4 An information structure distinction between extraposition and right dislocation/afterthought -- 2. On the prosody of correlate constructions in German -- 2.1 PPs with da- -- 2.2 Right dislocation of clauses -- 2.3 Genuine correlates -- 2.4 Coindexed subject expletives -- 3. Analysis of the distinctions in prosody and information structure between extraposition, right dislocation, and afterthought
3.1 A deletion account of right dislocation and afterthought -- 3.2 Root sentences, sentence stress, and focus -- 3.3 Analysis of extraposition, RD, and AT -- 3.4 On the interaction of stress-assignment and deletion in RD and AT -- 4. Summary -- References -- Phonological, morphosyntactic and semantic properties of es -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic assumptions -- 3. Lexical entries -- 3.1 Positional es -- 3.2 Quasi-argument es -- 3.3 "Anaphoric" pronouns and pro-forms es, dessen, dem, das, da(r) -- Anchor 91 -- 3.4 The related item of anaphoric pronouns and pro-forms -- 3.5 The correlate es and its suppletive forms -- 4. Right dislocation vs. extraposition -- 5. Matrix-predicate types -- 6. Complex anaphoric and cataphoric DPs -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References -- On the formation of prepositional adverbs in Modern German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The adverbial basis -- 3. The prepositional bases -- 3.1 'Below a location (static)' -- 3.2 'Below a location (dynamic)' -- 3.3 'Below a degree (static)' -- 3.4 'Below a degree (dynamic)' -- 3.5 'Identifiable by a linguistic or conceptual unit (static)' -- 3.6 'Identifiable by a linguistic or conceptual unit (dynamic)' -- 3.7 'Under a location (static)' -- 3.8 'Under a location (dynamic)' -- 3.9 'Caused by a burdening state of affairs' -- 3.10 'Among a multitude (static)' -- 3.11 'Among a multitude (dynamic)' -- 4. The prepositional adverbs -- 4.1 'Below a location there (static)' -- 4.2 'Caused by a burdening state of affairs there' -- 4.3 'Among a multitude there (static)' -- 5. Results -- References -- List of sources -- Sentential proforms and argument conditionals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic remarks on proforms and argument wenn-clauses -- 2.1 Construction types -- 2.2 Adverbial approach or complement approach -- 2.2.1 Pre-sentential argument wenn-clauses
2.2.2 Post-sentential argument wenn-clauses -- 2.2.3 Question-answer pairs and argument wenn-clauses -- 2.3 Proforms of pre- and post-sentential wenn-clauses -- 3. Syntactic structure of constructions with argument wenn-clauses -- 3.1 Pre-sentential argument wenn-clauses -- 3.2 Post-sentential argument wenn-clauses -- 3.3 Missing proforms -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Rethinking clausal asymmetries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The data: Propositional pronoun insertion in Hungarian -- 3. The syntax of pronoun insertion -- 3.1 The EF-analysis: The role of SpecCP -- 4. On the notion of predicationality -- 4.1 Predication vs. assertion -- 4.2 Predicational vs. non-predicational complements -- 5. The Predicationality Hypothesis -- 5.1 Pronoun insertion and predicationality -- 5.2 Summary -- 6. Information-structural consequences -- 6.1 Propositional (cataphoric) pronoun -- Focusing -- 6.2 Propositional (anaphoric) pronoun -- Backgrounding -- 6.3 Summary -- 7. Supporting evidence -- 7.1 Wh-expletives -- Asymmetry -- 7.2 Extraction data -- No asymmetry -- 8. Concluding remarks -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Propositional phrases
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
German language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Dutch
Dutch language -- Grammar, Comparative -- German
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Dutch language -- Grammar, Comparative -- German
German language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Dutch
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Form Electronic book
Author Frey, Werner (German linguist), editor.
Meinunger, André, editor
Schwabe, Kerstin, editor
LC no. 2016024235
ISBN 9789027266941
9027266948