Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View : Papers on Topical Issues in Syntax and Morphosyntax Paperback / softback

Edited by Jacek Witkos, Gisbert Fanselow

Part of the Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature series

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This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Polish, and Russian), stemming from the Syntax Session of the 2006 PLM conference in PoznaÅ„ (Poland).

Gisbert Fanselow and Caroline FÃ©ry discuss lack of Superiority with German movement; Gereon MÃ¼ller links pro-drop to non-impoverished inflectional morphology; Christopher Wilder deals with English constructions with a directional locative and imperative; Adam BiaÅ‚y decomposes event structure; Katarzyna SÃ³wka analyses the semantics of German verbs of giving; Ewa BuÅ‚at takes a fresh look at null subjects; Helen Trugman presents the distribution of adnominal adjectives in Russian; Agnieszka Pysz explores the same issue in Old English; BoÅ¼ena Cetnarowska employs OT to describe possessives in Polish; Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen and PaweÅ‚ Scheffler compare Polish and Italian reversible verbs; Radek Å imik describes different relative pronouns in Czech; Mojmir DoÄekal discusses lack of WCO effects in Czech; Michael Moss argues for a complex structure of the Polish clause, and Jacek WitkoÅ› demonstrates that control-as-movement penetrates CPs.