Tanja Schmid

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tanja Schmid is involved.

Title

Infinitival Syntax: Infinitivus Pro Participio as a repair strategy

Tanja Schmid

This monograph offers a new analysis of West Germanic ‘Infinitivus Pro Participio’ (IPP) constructions, within the framework of Optimality Theory. IPP constructions have long been problematic for syntactic theory, because a bare infinitive is preferred over the expected past participle. The book… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 79] 2005. xiv, 251 pp.

Articles

Bader, Markus, Jana Häussler and Tanja Schmid 2013 Constraints on intra- and extraposition Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective, Webelhuth, Gert, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker (eds.), pp. 63–98 | Article

Complement clauses in German are subject to two conflicting requirements. First, the grammar requires complements to precede the clause-final verb. Second, considerations of parsing complexity require clausal complements to move rightward to a position following the clause-final verb, thereby… read more

Bayer, Josef, Tanja Schmid and Markus Bader 2005 Clause Union and Clausal Position The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories, Dikken, Marcel den and Christina Tortora (eds.), pp. 79–113 | Article