Morphology-Driven Syntax: A theory of V to I raising and pro-drop
Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher
This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 15] 1999. viii, 296 pp.