Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages

Download or read book Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages written by Sten Vikner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the study of two different kinds of variation across the Germanic languages. One involves the position of the finite verb, and the other the possible positions of the "logical" subject in constructions with expletive (or "dummy") subjects. The book applies the theory of Principles-and-Parameters to the study of comparative syntax. Several languages are considered, including less frequently discussed ones like Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, and Yiddish.