German Syntax

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-51803-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 171, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 725 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

Exploring the major syntactic phenomena of German, this book provides a state-of-the-art account of German syntax, as well as an outline of the key aspects of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. It is one of the first comprehensive studies of the entire syntactic component of a natural language within the Minimalist Program, covering core issues including clause structure, binding, case, agreement, control, and movement. It introduces a phase-based theory of syntax that establishes Remove, an operation that removes syntactic structure, as a mirror image of Merge, which builds syntactic structure. This unified approach resolves many cases of conflicting structure assignments in syntax, as they occur with passivization, restructuring, long-distance passivization, complex prefields, bridge verbs, applicatives, null objects, pseudo-noun incorporation, nominal concord, and ellipsis. It will pave the way for similar research into other languages and is essential reading for anyone interested in the syntax of German, syntactic theory, or the Minimalist Program.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Müller, Gereon

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Structure building; 2. Structure removal; 3. Passive; 4. Restructuring; 5. Long-distance passive; 6. Complex prefields; 7. Further phenomena; 8. Concluding remarks; References; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Müller, Gereon
Gereon Müller is Professor of General Lingustics at Universität Leipzig. His recent publications include Constraints on Displacement (2011), Syntactic Buffers (2014), and Inflectional Morphology in Harmonic Serialism (2020).