Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View

The Polish Studies in English Language and Literature series presents monographs and collected volumes on Linguistics, Literature and Culture in the fields of English Language and Literatures as well as Linguistics. Topics include (among others) problems and methods of SLA (Second Language Acquisition), English-Polish contrastive linguistics, intertextuality, and studies on 19th century literature and authors.

This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Polish, and Russian), stemming from the Syntax Session of the 2006 PLM conference in Pozna (Poland). Gisbert Fanselow and Caroline Féry discuss lack of Superiority with German movement; Gereon Müller links pro-drop to non-impoverished inflectional morphology; Christopher Wilder deals with English constructions with a directional locative and imperative; Adam Biay decomposes event structure; Katarzyna Sówka analyses the semantics of German verbs of giving; Ewa Buat takes a fresh look at null subjects; Helen Trugman presents the distribution of adnominal adjectives in Russian; Agnieszka Pysz explores the same issue in Old English; Boena Cetnarowska employs OT to describe possessives in Polish; Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen and Pawe Scheffler compare Polish and Italian reversible verbs; Radek imik describes different relative pronouns in Czech; Mojmir Doekal discusses lack of WCO effects in Czech; Michael Moss argues for a complex structure of the Polish clause, and Jacek Witko demonstrates that control-as-movement penetrates CPs.

Autorentext

The Editors: Jacek Witkö is Professor of English Linguistics employed in the School of English of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä (Poland). His research interests include general linguistics, generative linguistics and the comparative Polish-English grammar.
Gisbert Fanselow is Professor of Syntax at the University of Potsdam (Germany). His research interests include generative syntax and psycholinguistics.

Inhalt
Contents: Adam Biay: Results and feature specification of Polish prefixes Ewa Buat: Empty subjects revisited and revised cross-linguistically Boena Cetnarowska: Genitive/possessive variation and syntactic optionality in an optimality-theoretic framework Mojmír Doekal: WCO and focus in Czech Gisbert Fanselow/Caroline Féry: Missing superiority effects: Long movement in German (and other languages) Katarzyna Miechowicz- Mathiasen/Pawe Scheffler: A corpus-based analysis of the peculiar behaviour of the Polish verb podoba si Michael Moss: Functional projections in Polish Gereon Müller: Some consequences of an impoverishment-based approach to morphological richness and Pro-Drop Agnieszka Pysz: On the placement of prenominal adjectives with complements: Evidence from Old English Radek imík: Specificity in (Czech) relative clauses Katarzyna Sówka: Non-uniform approach to dative verbs in English Helen Trugman: Move versus merge: DP-internal modifiers Christopher Wilder: The PP-with-DP construction Jacek Witko: Control and predicative adjectives in Polish.