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Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) provides a platform for original monograph studies into synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Studies in LA confront empirical and theoretical problems as these are currently discussed in syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and systematic pragmatics with the aim to establish robust empirical generalizations within a universalistic perspective. General Editors Werner Abraham University of Vienna / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Elly van Gelderen Arizona State University Advisory Editorial Board Cedric Boeckx Christer Platzack Guglielmo Cinque Ian Roberts Günther Grewendorf Lisa deMena Travis Liliane Haegeman Sten Vikner Hubert Haider C. Jan-Wouter Zwart Harvard University University of Venice J.W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt University of Lille, France University of Salzburg University of Lund Cambridge University McGill University University of Aarhus University of Groningen Terje Lohndal University of Maryland Volume 141 Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax Edited by Artemis Alexiadou University of Stuttgart Jorge Hankamer UCSC Thomas McFadden University of Stuttgart Justin Nuger UCSC Florian Schäfer University of Stuttgart John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Advances in comparative Germanic syntax / edited by Artemis Alexiadou ... [et al.]. p. cm. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, issn 0166-0829 ; v. 141) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Germanic languages--Grammar, Comparative. 2. Germanic languages--Syntax. I. Alexiadou, Artemis. PD99.A38 2009 430'.045--dc22 isbn 978 90 272 5524 2 (hb; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 8957 5 (eb) 2009003712 © 2009 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger & Florian Schäfer vii part i. Cartography and the left periphery On a (wh-)moved Topic in Italian, compared to Germanic Anna Cardinaletti 3 C-agreement or something close to it: Some thoughts on the ‘alls-construction’ Michael T. Putnam & Marjo van Koppen 41 Uncharted territory? Towards a non-cartographic account of Germanic syntax Jan-Wouter Zwart 59 Bootstrapping verb movement and the clausal architecture of German (and other languages) Gisbert Fanselow 85 A conjunction conspiracy at the West Germanic left periphery John R. te Velde 119 part ii. Word order and movement Reconsidering odd coordination in German Hironobu Kasai The syntax and semantics of the temporal anaphor “then” in Old and Middle English Carola Trips & Eric Fuß 151 171 Jespersen’s Cycle and the issue of prosodic ‘weakness’ Patrizia Noel Azi