{"id":782,"date":"2010-08-05T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=782"},"modified":"2010-06-14T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:42:34","slug":"form-structure-and-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Form, structure, and grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"
Form, structure, and grammar: <\/strong>A Festschrift presented to G\u00fcnther Grewendorf on occasion of his 60th birthday. Ed. by Patrick Brandt<\/strong> and Eric Fu\u00df<\/strong>. (Studia grammatical 63.) Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2006. Pp. xxvii, 405. ISBN 9783050042244<\/a>. \u20ac74,80.<\/div>\n

Reviewed by Agnieszka Pysz<\/strong><\/a>, Adam Mickiewicz University<\/em><\/p>\n

As stated in the introduction, this Festschrift does not aspire to do full justice to the breadth of G\u00fcnther Grewendorf\u2019s interests. It does, however, aim to reflect his body of work as justly as possible. The volume, which includes twenty-three contributions by Grewendorf\u2019s students, friends, and colleagues, is divided into three parts, each of which reflects a separate area of Grewendorf\u2019s research. Part 1,\u2018Form\u2019, revolves around the domains of morphology, lexical semantics, and their interface with syntax; Part 2, \u2018Structure\u2019, is dominated by issues concerning information structure (IS); and Part 3, \u2018Grammar\u2019, examines the language faculty as well as the interface of core grammar with the systems of interpretation and use.<\/p>\n

Part 1, which contains six articles, opens with Werner<\/strong> Abraham<\/strong>\u2019s discussion of the mechanics of underspecification, which is based on the differences between superficially identical participial forms. Manfred Bierwisch<\/strong> presents an analysis of German reflexives that captures their peculiar behavior. Sascha W. Felix<\/strong> considers learnability problems related to the acquisition of Japanese word structure. Tilman N.<\/strong> H\u00f6hle<\/strong> deals with the variation observed in three-verb clusters in German dialects. Manfred Krifka<\/strong> provides an account of the pronoun system and the predicate marker in Tok Pisin. An original treatment of pro-drop is offered by Gereon M\u00fcller<\/strong>, who builds his proposal on the key concept of impoverishment.<\/p>\n

Part 2 consists of ten papers. Josef Bayer<\/strong> deals with A\u2019-movement in the left periphery of German sentences. He reconsiders some aspects of operator status and weak crossover. Adriana Belletti<\/strong> advances a uniform analysis of Italian constructions that involve clitic left dislocation and relative clauses with resumption. Werner Frey<\/strong> gives an account of the German object pronoun es<\/em> appearing in clause-initial position. Gisbert Fanselow<\/strong> furnishes conceptual and empirical arguments against the idea of encoding IS directly in the syntax. IS phenomena are also discussed by Katharina Hartmann<\/strong> and Malte<\/strong> Zimmermann<\/strong>, who draw on the Chadic language Dghwe\u0257e. The focus of Cecilia<\/strong> Poletto<\/strong>\u2019s contribution is scrambling in Old Italian. Luigi Rizzi<\/strong> puts forward an analysis of inversion phenomena in Romance (in general) and Italian (in particular). Joachim Sabel<\/strong> argues for a link between the morphological properties of the C-system and the (non-)availability of nonfinite interrogatives and relatives. Mamoru Saito<\/strong>, referring to data from Japanese, supports an analysis of there<\/em>-sentences via associate raising or expletive replacement. Jochen<\/strong> Zeller<\/strong> investigates applicatives in the Bantu language Kinyarwanda, which he proposes are best analyzed in terms of preposition incorporation.<\/p>\n

Part 3 includes seven contributions. Rainer Dietrich<\/strong> addresses the question of whether the language faculty obeys its own rhythm or whether it is clocked along with other cognitive abilities. Hans-Martin G\u00e4rtner<\/strong> and Markus Steinbach<\/strong> argue against employing exclusively syntactic tools to handle phenomena related to speech acts and point of view. Georg Meggle<\/strong> offers a philosophical discussion of the evolution of human language in the context of Charles Darwin\u2019s package hypothesis. Monika Rathert<\/strong> looks at the issue of comprehensibility in forensic linguistics through the prism of frame semantics. Tom<\/strong> Roeper<\/strong>\u2019s contribution is devoted to the syntax of focus binding. Dietmar Zaefferer<\/strong> reconsiders some of his and Grewendorf\u2019s ideas about the conceptualization of sentence mood. Finally, Thomas Ede<\/strong> Zimmermann<\/strong> examines the status of semantic values assigned to linguistic expressions by \u2018realistic\u2019 semantic theories.<\/p>\n

One of the major strengths of this volume lies in its broad spectrum of topics. The book is, undoubtedly, a worthy tribute to Grewendorf. It is also a valuable publication that documents a range of important strands in theoretical linguistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Form, structure, and grammar: A Festschrift presented to G\u00fcnther Grewendorf on occasion of his 60th birthday. Ed. by Patrick Brandt and Eric Fu\u00df. (Studia grammatical 63.) Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2006. Pp. xxvii, 405. ISBN 9783050042244. \u20ac74,80. Reviewed by Agnieszka Pysz, Adam Mickiewicz University As stated in the introduction, this Festschrift does not aspire to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}