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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    February 2025
    March 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009518048
    9781009518031
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009518048
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.72kg, 398 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, European Language and Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (171)
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, European Language and Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (171)
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    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.

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