Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages

ISBN: 9780195083941 出版年：1995 页码：305 Vikner, Sten Oxford University Press

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.