Raising: Dutch Between English and German

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作者
van der Auwera, Johan [1 ]
Noel, Dirk [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Antwerp, Ctr Grammar Cognit & Typol, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium
[2] Univ Hong Kong, Sch English, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
关键词
COMPLEMENT CLAUSES; CONSTRUCTIONS;
D O I
10.1017/S1470542710000048
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
As a complement to C. B. van Haeringen's classic comparative study (1956) that positioned the grammar of Dutch in between the grammars of English and German, this study compares the productivity of three kinds of "raising" patterns in these languages: Object-to-Subject, Subject-to-Object, and Subject-to-Subject raising. It establishes the extent to which Dutch, as well as English and German, have evolved from the old West Germanic starting point these languages are assumed to have shared in this area of grammar. The results are a test case for Hawkins' (1986) case syncretism account of the difference in "explicitness" between the grammars of English and German.
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