Full Description
This book deals with sentential proforms and their relationship to their associated clauses. Sentential proforms are highly interesting from the point of view of grammatical theory, since their occurrence is determined not only by syntax, but also by prosody and semantics. The present volume contributes to a better understanding of the interfaces between these different levels. By providing syntactic, prosodic, semantic, psycholinguistic and corpus-based support, this book underpins the claim that there exist different sentential proform types in German and Dutch, that these proform types correlate with different verb classes, and that their associated related clauses are located in different syntactic positions. The present volume also looks at a Hungarian sentential proform construction, which is similar to the German(ic) structure, but, at the same time, is different in its licensing conditions.
Contents
1. Sentential proforms: An overview (by Schwabe, Kerstin); 2. Correlates of object clauses in German and Dutch (by Sudhoff, Stefan); 3. Correlative es vs. das in German: An empirical perspective (by Axel-Tober, Katrin); 4. On properties differentiating constructions with inner-sentential pro-forms for clauses (by Frey, Werner); 5. Some distinctions in the right periphery of the German clause (by Truckenbrodt, Hubert); 6. Phonological, morphosyntactic and semantic properties of es (by Zimmermann, Ilse); 7. On the formation of prepositional adverbs in Modern German: A case study on darunter (by Nolda, Andreas); 8. Sentential proforms and argument conditionals (by Schwabe, Kerstin); 9. Rethinking clausal asymmetries: Propositional pronoun insertion in Hungarian (by Brandtler, Johan); 10. Name Index; 11. Subject Index
