| Автор | OTTOSSON, KJARTAN |
| Автор | MALING, JOAN |
| Дата выпуска | 2006 |
| dc.description | A perennially challenging topic in generative syntax, the Middle Construction, has been the topic of several recent dissertations, including the book under review. Although not acknowledged as such in the published book, this is a moderately revised version of the Dr. Phil. (Promotion) dissertation, Middles in German: the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences, defended at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin in 1998. Steinbachʼs book is clearly the fullest treatment of the Middle Construction in German published in recent times. It presents an original and challenging analysis of this construction and offers a wealth of penetrating observations. As is natural for a review article, however, we will focus more on what we see as the problems and weaknesses of Steinbachʼs analysis than on the bookʼs virtues. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | On a post-syntactic account of the generic Middle ConstructionWe are grateful to Heike Wiese and Knud Lambrecht for their native speaker judgments on German sentences and for insightful discussion of the issues. We are also indebted to two anonymous JL referees and to Rex Sprouse, Craige Roberts, and Anneliese Pitz for suggestions and discussion. Special thanks are due to Markus Steinbach for his very useful comments on a draft of this article. A part of the first authorʼs work was carried out within the project ‘Linguistic theory and grammatical change’ at the Centre for Advanced Study, Drammensveien 78, N-0271 Oslo, Norway, during the academic year 2004–05. The material is based in part on work done while the second author was serving as Director of the Linguistics Program at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation. |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0022226706003975 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-7742 |
| Print ISSN | 0022-2267 |
| Журнал | Journal of Linguistics |
| Том | 42 |
| Первая страница | 423 |
| Последняя страница | 437 |
| Аффилиация | OTTOSSON KJARTAN; University of Oslo; University of Oslo |
| Аффилиация | MALING JOAN; Brandeis University; Brandeis University |
| Выпуск | 2 |
