Title Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German / edited by Agnes Jäger, Gisella Ferraresi, Helmut Weiß

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Description 1 online resource Series Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 28 Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 28. Contents Cover; Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German; Copyright; Contents; Series preface; Preface and acknowledgements; List of figures and tables; List of abbreviations; List of contributors; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Aims of the volume; 1.2 The syntax of German, the topological model, and the generative analysis of German clause structure; 1.3 Overview of the history of German; 1.4 Organization of the volume; Part I: The Left Periphery; 2: Introduction to Part I; 2.1 The evolution of the verb-second rule; 2.2 Verb-initial declaratives 2.3 Distribution of information-structural categories in the prefield in later stages of German2.4 The rise of adverbial connectives; 3: Origins of verb-second in Old High German; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Proto-Germanic sentence grammar: major characteristics; 3.3 The pre-verb-second grammar of Old High German: extensions at the left periphery; 3.3.1 Dislocated topics and left-peripheral adverbial clauses; 3.3.2 Left-peripheral sentence particles; 3.3.3 Pronouns to the left of the fronted finite verb; 3.3.4 Summary; 3.4 Characteristics of the verb-second grammar of Old High German 3.4.1 Sketch of the Modern German verb-second grammar3.4.2 An innovative feature of the Old High German left periphery: the filling of the prefield; 3.5 Diachronic issues; 3.5.1 Continuity and discontinuity in the C-domain; 3.5.2 Origins of the different ways of filling the prefield; 3.6 Summary; 4: Verb-initial declaratives in Old High German and in later German; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 On the native status of V1 declaratives; 4.3 The syntactic analysis of V1 declaratives; 4.4 The distribution of V1 declaratives in OHG; 4.4.1 General observations 4.4.2 Verb-initial order in fully rhematic utterances4.4.3 Verb-initial order with non-accusative verbs; 4.4.4 V1 and narrative inversion in Germanic; 4.4.5 Sentence particles as blockers of XP movement; 4.4.6 V1 and rhetorical structure; 4.5 Excursus: the variation between V1 and thÃ-́V2; 4.6 The later development of V1 declaratives; 4.7 Conclusion; 5: The prefield after the Old High German period; 5.1 The prefield in Modern German; 5.1.1 Syntactic constraints; 5.1.2 Information-structural constraints; 5.2 The prefield in older stages of German; 5.2.1 Middle High German 5.2.2 Early New High German5.3 On the doubly filled prefield in Early New High German; 5.3.1 The data; 5.3.2 Implications for the syntactic analysis; 5.3.3 Excursus on post-initial connectives; 5.4 Summary; 6: Adverbial connectives; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The rise and development of aber: from restitutive VP-adverb to CP-connective element; 6.2.1 OHG afur as a restitutive and repetitive adverb and its replacement by wieder; 6.2.2 From an adverb to a connective adversative element; 6.2.2.1 The component of contrast; 6.2.2.2 The syntactic position of OHG afur/aber Summary This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into multiple central aspects of clause structure and word order, including verb placement, adverbial connectives, pronominal syntax, and information-structural factors Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 20, 2018) Subject German language -- Grammar, Historical German language -- Clauses -- History German language -- Word order -- History German language -- Old High German, 750-1050 -- Grammar German language -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- Grammar Low German language -- To 1500 -- Grammar FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- German. German language -- Clauses German language -- Grammar, Historical German language -- Middle High German -- Grammar German language -- Old High German -- Grammar German language -- Word order Low German language -- Grammar Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Jäger, Agnes, editor Ferraresi, Gisella, editor Weiss, Helmut, 1961- editor. ISBN 9780192543073 0192543075 9780191851414 0191851418

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