German: Syntactic Problems – Problematic Syntax

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German: Syntactic Problems – Problematic Syntax is written by Werner Abraham and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110914727 (ISBN 10) and 9783110914726 (ISBN 13).

The volume assembles eleven articles presenting a linguistic approach to the grammar of German, English and the diachronic forerunners of English. Common to all is a theoretical discussion against the background of Chomskyan minimalism (1993) and more recent developments of it (Kayne 1993, Chomsky 1995), all of which make language typology comparisons an interesting proposition. Some of the articles are critical of certain aspects of these theoretical approaches. For all their claims to descriptive universality, it transpires that they fail to address a number of features specific to German.