German: Syntactic Problems - Problematic Syntax

Inhalt: Introduction 1. - W. Abraham, The Base Structure of the German Clause under Discourse Functional Weight: Contentful Functional Categories vs Derivative Ones. - H. Czepluch, Word Order in English: Old Problems and New Answers. - E. van Gelderen, Inflection and Movement in Old English. - H. Haider, Projective Economy. On the Minimal Functional Structure on the German Clause. - C.J.-W. Zwart, Transitive Expletive Constructions and the Evidence Supporting the Multiple Specifier Hypothesis. - Introduction 2. - A. Alexiadou/E. Anagnostopoulou, Toward a Uniform Account of Scrambling and Clitic Doubling. - K.K. Grohmann, Pronouns of the Left Periphery of West Germanic Embedded Clauses. - E. Mallen, Agreement and Case Matching in Noun Phrases in German. - J. te Velde, Deriving Conjoined XP's: A Minimal Deletion Approach. - Introduction 3. - Chr. Platzack, The Initial Hypotheses of Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective on Language Acquisition and Attrition. - R.A. Sprouse, The Acquisition of German and the "Initial Hypothesis of Language": A Reply to Platzack.