Major pillars of German syntax: An introduction to CRMS-theory

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Author(s): Peter Rolf Lutzeier
Series: Linguistische Arbeiten 258
Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag
Year: 1991

Language: English
Pages: ix, 404 p. :
City: Tùˆbingen

Where does it all start?
1.1 Syntax versus grammar
1.2 Types of data
1.3 Methodological remarks
Limitations for the notion 'sentence'
2.1 Types of approaches
2.2 Written language
2.3 One-word-sentences
2.4 Spoken language
2.4.1 The hypothesis of sentence contours
2.4.2 Problems with the hypothesis
2.4.3 Modification of the hypothesis
2.4.4 Relevance of the meaning-side
2.5 Sentence versus utterance
Inner organization of sentences
3.1 Constituents
3.1.1 Hierarchical organization
3.1.2 Reordering test
3.1.3 Reduction test
3.1.4 Methodological remarks
3.1.5 Binary divisions
3.1.6 Labelled constituent structures
3.2 Syntactic-semantic relations
3.2.1 Relational organization
3.2.2 Syntactic categories versus syntactic relations
3.2.3 Ways of approaching the relational organization
3.2.4 Syntactic-semantic relations for German
3.2.5 Properties of the set of syntactic-semantic relations
3.2.6 Methodological issues raised by the set of syntactic-semantic relations
3.3 Marking structure
3.4 Suprasegmental structure
Where does it all end?
Literature