Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View

This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Polish, and Russian), stemming from the Syntax Session of the 2006 PLM conference in Pozna (Poland). Gisbert Fanselow and Caroline Fry discuss lack of Superiority with German movement; Gereon Mller links pro-drop to non-impoverished inflectional morphology; Christopher Wilder deals with English constructions with a directional locative and imperative; Adam Biay decomposes event structure; Katarzyna Swka analyses the semantics of German verbs of giving; Ewa Buat takes a fresh look at null subjects; Helen Trugman presents the distribution of adnominal adjectives in Russian; Agnieszka Pysz explores the same issue in Old English; Boena Cetnarowska employs OT to describe possessives in Polish; Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen and Pawe Scheffler compare Polish and Italian reversible verbs; Radek imik describes different relative pronouns in Czech; Mojmir Doekal discusses lack of WCO effects in Czech; Michael Moss argues for a complex structure of the Polish clause, and Jacek Witko demonstrates that control-as-movement penetrates CPs.