Germanic languages and linguistic universals

Table of Contents: “…Some general evolutionary and typological characteristics of the Germanic languages / John Ole Askedal -- Characteristics of Germanic languages / Tadao Shimomiya -- Old English pronouns for possession / Yasuaki Fujiwara -- Reflexive binding as agreement and its locality conditions within the phase system / Hiroshi Hasegawa -- Movement in the passive nominal : a morphological analysis / Junji Hamamatsu -- On tritransitive verbs / Ryohei Mita -- On the cognitive dependence phenomena observed in English expressions / Shuichi Takeda -- On pronoun referents in English / Hiromi Azuma -- Relative and interrogative who/whom in contemporary professional American English / Yoko Iyeiri and Michiko Yaguchi -- New functions of FrameSQL for multilingual FrameNets / Hiroaki Sato.…”
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Noam Chomsky and language descriptions

Table of Contents: “…Genesis of generative grammar -- Systems of syntactic analysis / Noam Chomsky -- -- Some methodological remarks on generative grammar / Noam Chomsky -- Knowledge of language: its elements and origins / Noam Chomsky -- Current issues in language descriptions -- Germanic passive constructions / John Ole Askedal -- Prosodic constraints on Old English alliteration / Yasuaki Fujiwara -- The historical role of genitives in the emergence of DP / Kazuyo Miyamae -- -- The word pairs in Chaucer's verse in comparison with those in his prose / Akinobu Tani -- A short note on movement and control in the English noun phrase / Junji Hamamatsu -- Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions in spoken American English / Yoko Iyeiri, Michiko Yaguchi and Yasumasa Baba -- Complement capacities in German: three types of complements / Yasuhito Hosaka.…”
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