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"The study investigates the structure of declarative and interrogative sentence types in German that are consistent with their prototypical usage, yet at the same time, include the (a)symmetrical distribution of [±wh] phrases in the left sentence periphery of verb-second and verb-last sentences. The study focuses on the forward placement of the finitum and the topicalization of non-relative [-wh] phrases for the derivation of sentence-type meaning." -- Publisher's website

"Die Arbeit untersucht evidentielle Satzadverbien wie "anscheinend" und "offenbar" und verknüpft die internationale Forschung zu Satzadverbien, Evidentialität, Grammatikalisierung und dem aktuellen Gebiet (Non)-At-issueness. Mit experimentellen Daten sowie qualitativen und quantitativen Korpusstudien zum Gegenwartsdeutschen und früheren Sprachstufen werden deren Syntax, Semantik und ihre (Un)Verhandelbarkeit im Diskurs beleuchtet und analysiert."--Page 4 of cover

This investigation of V2-movement addresses the question which role the lexical content of the moved element plays during sentence processing. It draws on original theoretical arguments, empirical data and results from psycholinguistic experiments. The main finding is that the lexical content of the V2-verb is interpreted only at the end of the clause, i.e. at the base position of the finite verb.
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• An introduction to reconstruction effects in relative clauses / Mathias Schenner
• A direct compositionality approach to condition C effects under reconstruction and their exceptions / Manfred Krifka
• Relative reconstructions / Caroline Heycock
• A calculus for reconstruction and anti-reconstruction / Winifried Lechner
• Notes on stress reconstruction and syntactic reconstruction / Hubert Ruckenbrodt
• A new version of the matching analysis of relative clauses / Martin Salzmann
• Idioms as evidence for the proper analysis of relative clauses / Gert Webelhuth, Sascha Bargmann, and Christopher Götze
• Some notes on connectivity and predicational copular sentences / Maribel Romero
• Functional readings without type-shifted noun phrases / Irene Helm
• Deconstructing reconstruction / Pauline Jacobson
• Evaluation order, crossover, and reconstruction / Chris Barker
• Telescoping by continuations / Wolfgagn Sternefeld
• Telescoping in relative clauses / Janina Radó, Andreas Konietzko, and Wolfgang Sternefeld
• Intensional relative clauses and the semantics of variable objects / Friederike Moltmann.

Reconstruction effects in relative clauses are a class of phenomena where the external head of the relative clause seems to behave as if it occupied a position withing the relative clause This volume brings together analyses from different frameworks, enabling the reader to develop their own perspective on the perfect tradeoff between syntax and semantics in a theory of grammar.

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Empirical data
• 3. Past participial (non- )identity in the literature
• 4. A compositional approach to the identity of past participles
• 5. Conclusion
• References
• Index

Are the past participial forms that occur in passive and perfect periphrases substantially identical or should they rather be distinguished into accidentally homophonous passive and perfect(ive) participles? This book discusses the long-standing mystery of past participial (non-)identity on the basis of a broad range of synchronic data from Germanic and Romance, eventually focussing on German and English as these draw the most relevant distinctions (e.g. auxiliary alternation, a passive auxiliary that is not BE). Together with some contrastive insights from Slavic as well as the diachrony of passive and perfect periphrases, this clearly points to an identity-view. The novel approach that is laid out suggests that past participles conflate diathetic and aspectual properties. The former cause the suppression of an external argument, whereas the latter impose event-structure sensitive perfectivity, which only induces the completion of a situation if the underlying eventuality denotes a simple change of state. An approach along these lines sheds light on the intricate properties of past participles and the auxiliaries they occur with, the determinants of auxiliary selection as well as the interplay of argument and event structure.
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Are the past participial forms that occur in passive and perfect periphrases substantially identical or should they rather be distinguished into accidentally homophonous passive and perfect(ive) participles? This book discusses the long-standing mystery of past participial (non-)identity on the basis of a broad range of synchronic data from Germanic and Romance, eventually focussing on German and English as these draw the most relevant distinctions (e.g. auxiliary alternation, a passive auxiliary that is not BE). Together with some contrastive insights from Slavic as well as the diachrony of passive and perfect periphrases, this clearly points to an identity-view. The novel approach that is laid out suggests that past participles conflate diathetic and aspectual properties. The former cause the suppression of an external argument, whereas the latter impose event-structure sensitive perfectivity, which only induces the completion of a situation if the underlying eventuality denotes a simple change of state. An approach along these lines sheds light on the intricate properties of past participles and the auxiliaries they occur with, the determinants of auxiliary selection as well as the interplay of argument and event structure.
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Over the last decades, it has been hotly debated whether and how compounds, i.e. word-formations, and phrases differ from each other. The book discusses this issue by investigating compounds and phrases from a structural, semantic-functional and, crucially, cognitive perspective. The analysis focuses on compounds and phrases that are composed of either an adjective and a noun or two nouns in German, French and English. Having distinguished compounds from phrases on structural and semantic-functional grounds, the author claims that compounds are by their nature more appropriate to be stored in the mental lexicon than phrases and supports his argument with empirical evidence from new psycholinguistic studies. In sum, the book maintains the separation between compounds and phrases and reflects upon its cognitive consequences.
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• Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Some general notes; List of tables; List of figures;
• 1. Introduction;
• 2. Basic assumptions;
• 3. Compound-phrase distinction I: Structural aspects;
• 4. Compound-phrase distinction II: Semantic-functional aspects;
• 5. Compound-phrase distinction III: Cognitive aspects;
• 6. Experimental study I: The memorization of compounds/CoLiCos and phrases/PhraLiCos: An investigation on German, French and English;
• 7. Experimental study II: The memorization of CoLiCos and PhraLiCos in English;
• 8. Conclusion; Appendix; References

Over the last decades, it has been hotly debated whether and how compounds, i.e. word-formations, and phrases differ from each other. The book discusses this issue by investigating compounds and phrases from a structural, semantic-functional and, crucially, cognitive perspective. The analysis focuses on compounds and phrases that are composed of either an adjective and a noun or two nouns in German, French and English. Having distinguished compounds from phrases on structural and semantic-functional grounds, the author claims that compounds are by their nature more appropriate to be stored in the mental lexicon than phrases and supports his argument with empirical evidence from new psycholinguistic studies. In sum, the book maintains the separation between compounds and phrases and reflects upon its cognitive consequences.
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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• 1. Preface
• 2. Introduction
• 3. Minimalist Reflections
• 4. Propagating Symmetry
• 5. Shared Labels and Criterial Freezing
• 6. In Defense of Forked chains
• 7. Summary and Outlook
• Bibliography
• Index.

What is the trigger for displacement phenomena in natural language syntax? And how can constraints on syntactic movement be derived from interface conditions and so-called Third Factor principles? Within the Minimalist Program a standard answer to the first question is that it is driven by morphosyntactic features. This monograph challenges that view and suggests that the role of features in driving syntactic computation has been overestimated. Instead it proposes that "labeling" -- the detection of a prominent element in sets formed by Merge -- plays a role in driving transformations, and labeling itself is understood to derive from an interplay of efficient computation and the need for a label at the Conceptual-Intentional systems. It explores this idea in four empirical domains: Long-distance dependencies, Criterial Freezing-phenomena, nested dependencies and ATB-movement. The languages considered include English, German and Hebrew.
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This study in theoretical syntax takes recent progress in the theory of "labeling" as a starting point and suggests novel analyses of four empirical phenomena: long-distance dependencies, Criterial Freezing, nested dependencies and ATB-movement. The proposal ascribes a limited role of morphosyntactic features to syntactic computation in favor of principles of efficient computation and interface properties.
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This monographs investigates into the influence of the individual-/stage-level distinction (IL/SL) on order restrictions of multiple prenominal adjectives (AORs). It rejects the restriction regularly postulated-across different research frameworks-that SL-adjectives are being realized farther from the head noun than IL-adjectives, relegating the alleged constraint to an epiphenomenon of more general principles. While formal-theoretic hypotheses on AORs are formulated and put to the test empirically via a large corpus as well as two rating studies, the book also addresses adjective classification, modification patterns, and the IL-SL-debate in general. The preferred prenominal positions of typical SL-adjectives are argued to follow from their nature as absolute-gradable adjectives as well as from the distinction between object- and kind-modification. The empirical studies corroborate these considerations. The book critically discusses and opposes several well-established hypotheses on AORs, sketches a flexible and parsimonious syntax of adjectival modification, and will be of interest to syntacticians and semanticists working on DP-structure, the IL-SL-debate, and adjectival modification.
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• Table of contents ; Acknowledgments ; List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1 The word class 'adjective' ; 1.1 Cross-linguistic and language-specific ; 1.1.1 Cross-linguistic perspectives ; 1.1.2 Language-specific perspectives.

• 1.2 Semantics and subclassification of adjectives 1.2.1 Two dichotomies ; 1.2.2 Adjective typologies and modification ; 1.3 Chapter summary ; 2 Individual-level, stage-level, and temporariness ; 2.1 Data and Theories for the IL-SL-contrast ; 2.1.1 Diagnostics.

• 2.1.2 Some notes on major theoretical accounts 2.2 Lexical aspect and temporariness ; 2.2.1 Adjectival aspect and the Vendler-classification ; 2.2.2 Temporariness and IL-SL ; 2.3 What kind of adjectives are typical SLs? ; 2.3.1 Typical SLs are absolute gradable adjectives.

• 2.3.2 Conjectures on the (partial) absolute-SL-coincidence 2.4 Chapter summary ; 3 Adjective order restrictions, adjective classes, and property concepts in DP ; 3.1 Quality adjectives and DP structure ; 3.2 Adjective order restrictions ; 3.2.1 Preliminaries and scope of investigation.

• 3.2.2 AORs in the narrow sense 3.3 Corpus-study ; 3.3.1 Rationale ; 3.3.2 Search procedure ; 3.3.3 Yield and data cleansing ; 3.3.4 Results ; 3.3.5 Discussion ; 3.4 Questionnaire study I ; 3.4.1 Rationale ; 3.4.2 Participants and set-up ; 3.4.3 Items and hypotheses.

This monographs investigates into the influence of the individual-/stage-level distinction (IL/SL) on order restrictions of multiple prenominal adjectives (AORs). It rejects the restriction regularly postulated-across different research frameworks-that SL-adjectives are being realized farther from the head noun than IL-adjectives, relegating the alleged constraint to an epiphenomenon of more general principles. While formal-theoretic hypotheses on AORs are formulated and put to the test empirically via a large corpus as well as two rating studies, the book also addresses adjective classification, modification patterns, and the IL-SL-debate in general. The preferred prenominal positions of typical SL-adjectives are argued to follow from their nature as absolute-gradable adjectives as well as from the distinction between object- and kind-modification. The empirical studies corroborate these considerations. The book critically discusses and opposes several well-established hypotheses on AORs, sketches a flexible and parsimonious syntax of adjectival modification, and will be of interest to syntacticians and semanticists working on DP-structure, the IL-SL-debate, and adjectival modification.
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This monograph deals with order restrictions among multiple prenominal adjectives at the syntax-semantics-interface. The author argues for two layers of adnominal modification, illustrates that fine-grained semantic classification undergenerates heavily, and relegates temporariness to an epiphenomenon of more general principles. The research design combines formal theory and empirical approaches.
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• Zur allgemeinen Struktur des deutschen Satzes
• Basisabfolge der Argumente und Restriktionen über Umstellungen der Basisabfolge
• Theoretische Grundannahmen der vorliegenden Analyse
• Scrambling mithilfe semanto-pragmatisch motivierter Projektionen
• Analysen von Scrambling durch formale Bewegungsoperationen
• Obligatorische Bewegungen als Ursache von Stellungsoptionen : vP-TP-Bewegungen als zweite Scrambling-Operation
• Distributed Deletion als Auswahl von Kopien bewegter Elemente
• Mögliche technische Probleme der Analyse
• Wozu eine weitere generative Analyse?
• Abbildung der informationsstrukturellen Verhältnisse im Mittelfeld
• Zur Erklärung der syntaktischen Verhältnisse im Mittelfeld
• Zur Erklärung der semantischen Verhältnisse im Mittelfeld des deutschen Satzes.

• CONTENTS
• Preface
• Part I Syntax
• A Spurious Genitive Puzzle in Polish
• Semantic Type Effects on Crossing Movement in German
• Me and Chomsky
• On the Typology of Verb Second
• Movement from Verb-Second Clauses Revisited
• Spurious Ambiguities and the Parentheticals Debate
• Part II Semantics
• On Squeamishness of the Royal Kind
• Information Structure of schon
• When- Clauses, Factive Verbs and Correlates
• The Proof Theory of Partial Variables
• Brentano's Apple
• How to Interpret Expletive Negation under bevor in German

• Wide Scope im situ What it Takes to be Missing
• Part III Automata Theory
• Robust Parsing as a Constraint Optimization Problem within a Finite-state Approach
• Îæ-Removal by Loop Reductionfor Finite-state Automata over Complete Semirings
• Efficient Online A; -Best Lookupin Weighted Finite-State Cascades
• Tomita's Algorithm Revisited
• Part IV Mathematical Linguistics
• On the Treatment of Multiple-WMnterrogatives in Minimalist Grammars
• Some Remarks on Mildly Context-Sensitive Copying
• Part V Computational Linguistics

• On Statistical Metrics for Selection and Phrasality Testing the Distributional Hypothesis for Collaborative Tagging Systems
• Part VI Classical Studies
• Herstellungstechniken von Inschriften auf rÃœmischen Wasserleitungsrohren aus Blei

This series publishes original contributions which describe and theoretically analyze structures of natural languages. The main focus is on principles and rules of grammatical and lexical knowledge both with respect to individual languages and from a comparative perspective. The volumes cover all levels of linguistic analysis, especially phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, including aspects of language acquisition, language use, language change, and phonetical and neuronal realization.
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This series publishes original contributions which describe and theoretically analyze structures of natural languages. The main focus is on principles and rules of grammatical and lexical knowledge both with respect to individual languages and from a comparative perspective. The volumes cover all levels of linguistic analysis, especially phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, including aspects of language acquisition, language use, language change, and phonetical and neuronal realization.
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