The Order of Prepositional Phrases in the Structure of the Clause -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ARGUMENTS AND MODIFIERS -- 2.1 Sentence constituents -- 2.2 Representation in X-Bar structure -- 2.3 The Split Infl hypothesis -- 2.4 The level of logical form and covert movement -- 2.5 The minimalist program -- 2.6 Antisymmetry -- 2.7 Semantic interpretation of X-bar structure -- 2.8 Parallels between morphology and syntax -- 2.10 The Cinque hierarchy -- 2.11 Recent minimalist developments -- 3. THE ORDER OF PPS IN GERMAN - EMPIRICAL OBSERVATIONS -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 General remarks on German sentence structure -- 3.3 Potential tests for finding the base generation of phrases -- 3.4 Word order in the German Mittelfeld -- 3.5 My data -- 4. RESTRICTIONS ON STRUCTURE AND MOVEMENT -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Trees and subtrees -- 4.3 Basic projections -- 4.4 Basic relations -- 4.5 Extended projections -- 4.6 Sequences of modifiers of the same category -- 4.7 Derivations -- 4.8 Movement -- 5. AFFIXES IN SYNTAX -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Prefixes and suffixes -- 5.3 Derivation of the inverted order of suffixes. -- 5.4 Derivation of the direct order of prefixes -- 5.5 Separable prefixes -- 5.6 Derivation of the inverted order of prefixes -- 5.7 Fused morphemes -- 5.8 Arguments -- 5.9 Open questions -- 5.10 Conclusion -- 6. SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF THE SURFACE WORD ORDER OF PPS -- 6.1 The basic patterns -- 6.2 A symmetric analysis -- 6.3 Directionally licensing and the proposal of Haider -- 6.4 Collective versus indivual checking in the work of Koster -- 6.5 The pied piping analysis of Cinque -- 6.6 The verb second problem -- 6.7 Overt verb movement driven only by morphology -- 6.8 Cyclic approaches -- 7. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- NAME INDEX -- LANGUAGE INDEX.

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