Major Pillars of German Syntax: An Introduction to CRMS-Theory (Linguistische Arbeiten)

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory. 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 The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues in synchrony and diachrony, theoretically or empirically oriented. Major Pillars Of German Syntax. An Introduction To CRMS- Theory (Linguistische Arbeiten). Peter Rolf Lutzeier. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [377]-404.