Christer Platzack

List of John Benjamins publications in which Christer Platzack is involved.

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Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference

Edited by Johan Brandtler, Valéria Molnár and Christer Platzack

This volume brings together ten papers presented at the 10th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Lund, 2011). The papers cover a broad field of issues in Hungarian relating to phonetics, phonology, semantics, syntax and pragmatics, such as vowel harmony, particle verb… read more

[Approaches to Hungarian, 13] 2013. v, 254 pp.

The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar

Edited by Gunlög Josefsson, Christer Platzack and Gisela Håkansson

This book provides a number of studies of different aspects of Swedish child language. Some of the thematic chapters present original, unpublished data: on the acquisition of tense, on the range and frequency of different word order patterns in early child Swedish, related to the input, meaning the… read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 33] 2004. vi, 313 pp.

Platzack, Christer 2013 Spurious topic drop in Swedish In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque, Lohndal, Terje (ed.), pp. 27–50 | Article

Like English, Swedish is a language with obligatory subjects in finite clauses. One of the exceptions to the rule that the subject must be pronounced is found when the subject is Topic dropped from sentence initial position, resulting in a V1 declarative with no visible subject. Since Topic drop in… read more

Platzack, Christer 2012 Cross Germanic variation in the realm of support verbs Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art, Ackema, Peter, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), pp. 279–310 | Article

This paper investigates the cross Germanic variation found in the use of support verbs in connection with VP Topicalization, VP Ellipsis and VP Pronominalization. The differences between Swedish and English are highlighted, but Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and German are also considered. In this… read more

Platzack, Christer 2008 Left Branch Extraction of nominal modifiers in Old Scandinavian Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers, Eythórsson, Thórhallur (ed.), pp. 357–374 | Article

Platzack, Christer 2007 Embedded imperatives Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema, Wurff, Wim van der (ed.), pp. 181–203 | Article

Embedded imperatives are found in Old Scandinavian, but not in any of its modern descendants, i.e. Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian or Swedish. This paper aims to uncover the structural prerequisites for embedded imperatives to be possible in a language. Assuming a feature-driven version of… read more

Josefsson, Gunlög and Christer Platzack 2004 Introduction The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar, Josefsson, Gunlög, Christer Platzack and Gisela Håkansson (eds.), pp. 1–21 | Article

Platzack, Christer 2004 The Verb Phrase The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar, Josefsson, Gunlög, Christer Platzack and Gisela Håkansson (eds.), pp. 135–154 | Article

Platzack, Christer 2000 A Complement-of-N⁰ Account of Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Relatives: The case of Swedish The Syntax of Relative Clauses, Alexiadou, Artemis, Paul Law, André Meinunger and Chris Wilder (eds.), pp. 265–308 | Article

Platzack, Christer 1996 The Initial Hypothesis of Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective on Language Acquisition and Attrition Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons, Clahsen, Harald (ed.), pp. 369–414 | Article

Platzack, Christer 1984 Pauline Jacobson & Geoffrey K. Pullum (eds.). The Nature of Syntactic Representations Studies in Language 8:1, pp. 115–141 | Article

Platzack, Christer 1982 Review of Newmeyer (1980): Linguistic Theory in America: The first quarter-century of transformational generative grammar Studies in Language 6:2, pp. 285–292 | Review