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This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon (scrambling) in a wide range of languages - in particular, German, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Tongan, and Turkish - in some of which the phenomenon was previously unstudied. In the past, the syntax of free word order phenomena has been studied intensively with respect to its A- and A'-movement properties and in connection with its semantic (undoing) effects. The different articles in this volume offer new ways of analyzing free word order under (i) minimalist assumptions, (ii) concerning the typology of scrambling languages, (iii) with respect to the question of how it is acquired by children, (iv) in connection with its relatedness to information structural factors, and (v) with respect to its consequences for a highly elaborated sentence structure of the IP/VP domain. The articles that focus mainly on the empirical aspects of free word order phenomena deal with the properties and proper analysis of rightwards scrambling in Turkish, with the A-/A'-nature and triggers for VSO-VOS alternations in Tongan, as well as with left-branch extractions and NP-Split in Slavic and its consequences for a typology of scrambling languages. The articles that focus on theoretical aspects of scrambling deal with questions concerning the motivation of a derivation with scrambling in a free word order language, such as whether scrambling has to be analyzed as topicalization or focus movement. Or assuming that scrambling is feature-driven, how the technical details of this analysis are implemented in the grammar to avoid unwarranted derivations, for example, derivations with string-vacuous scrambling. A further important question that is addressed is when scrambling is acquired in the development of the grammar, and what the consequences are for the timing of the acquisition of A- and A'-movement properties. This volume will be most relevant to researchers and advanced students interested in generative syntax, as well as typologists working on German, Japanese, Slavic, Turkish, Dravidian and Austronesian languages. We regret that due to a layout error the title of Miyagawa's article on "EPP and semantically vacuous scrambling" is misrepresented in the printed version of the book. You can download the article with the corrected title here.

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Word order. --- Syntax. --- Language and languages --- Word order --- Order (Grammar) --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax. --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Minimalism. --- Word Order.

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This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an interaction of checking conditions, the EPP and different types of verb movement, and from parametric variation concerning the location of the subject of predication in the I- or in the C-system.

Germanic languages --- Clauses --- Grammar, Comparative --- Word order --- Teutonic languages --- Indo-European languages --- Clauses. --- Grammar, Comparative. --- Word order.

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The book aims at providing a precise description of part of the Gothic syntax in the context of a formal theory of syntax. The following questions are addressed: To what extent can Gothic - despite its limited corpus - be used as data material? Further, which of the ascertained syntactic characteristics does Gothic have in common with other old Indo-European languages? Which of these features can be characterized as typically Germanic? It is shown that - despite a certain Greek influence - the Gothic Bible is indeed a rich source of data which can with some certainty be regarded as typically Gothic. Phenomena concerning the left periphery like personal pronouns, topicalization, left-dislocation and discourse particles are described and discussed within the generative framework, with additions from pragmatic and cognitive linguistics for those issues where syntax seems to be inadequate to cover the whole range of the phenomena concerned. The readership aimed at is that of linguists and philologists, and of scholars interested in the interrelation between both disciplines.

Germanic languages --- Grammar --- Gotique (langue) --- Gotisch (taal) --- Syntaxe --- Syntaxis --- Gothic language --- Word order --- Phraseology --- Syntax --- Ordre des mots --- Phraséologie --- Woordvolgorde. --- Gotisch. --- Gotique (Langue) --- Wortstellung. --- Syntax. --- Phraseologie. --- Word order. --- Phraseology. --- Ordre des mots. --- Phraséologie. --- Syntaxe. --- 439.9 --- Language East Germanic Gothic --- Gothic language - Word order --- Gothic language - Phraseology --- Gothic language - Syntax

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Syntaxis. --- Vergelijkende en algemene grammatica --- Voorzetsels. --- Zinnen met voorzetsels. --- Clauses. --- Prepositional phrases. --- Syntax. --- Word order. --- syntaxis. --- woordvolgorde. --- Prepositional phrases --- Syntax --- Word order --- Clauses --- Grammar --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Language and languages --- Order (Grammar) --- Sentences --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Word order --- Order (Grammar) --- Verb --- Syntax --- Verb phrase --- Verbals --- Reflexives --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax