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The following thesis focuses on forms that traditional German grammar designates as "Pronominaladverbien." The objective was to establish the word class under which these forms-hereafter DWPs-should fall and their syntactic role. The thesis also aims at determining which translation procedures are used when translating German DWPs into French. / As a first step, DWPs were integrated into a classification system that took into account both their proform character and their various syntactic roles. / Organizing the DWP translations into a system proved to be somewhat arduous. After reviewing various translation theories, a conclusion became unavoidable: these systems do not accommodate all the characteristics of DWPs. A new classification system was devised. / With the new system, it became possible to identify the most frequent translation procedures used for each DWP type and, at times, to explain their frequency. The conclusion of the thesis is that French manages in most cases to translate German DWPs without significant semantic loss.

Within the framework of Government-Binding Theory, this thesis argues that the Germanic languages, including German and related languages, should be analyzed as having INFL-second underlying work order. Contrary to traditional generative treatments of the so-called "verb-second" (V2) phenomenon, it is claimed here, in light of certain subtle asymmetries, that the final target site of the moved verb is INFL (I$ sp0)$ in sentences with pre-verbal subjects and COMP (C$ sp0)$ in those with pre-verbal non-subjects. / It is further maintained that an analysis, as modified and extended in the thesis, in which verb movement is triggered by the Empty Category Principle (ECP) is superior, on both conceptual and empirical grounds, to other theories advanced by generativists to date. A wide variety of clause types in the modern Germanic languages, including in particular German V2 complements and Icelandic infinitival complements, are examined, the final chapter being devoted to a proposal concerning German "parentheticals".

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1988. / Vita. Bibliography: leaves [245]-255.

Thesis (EdD) -- Australian Catholic University, 2005. / Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education. Bibliography: p. 222-240. Also available in an electronic version via the internet.

Marburg, Phil. Diss. v. 23. Aug. 1933. / Vollst. als: Dt. Dialektgeogr. 36.

Programm - K. Studienanstalt zu Nürnberg. 1877/78. / No more published?

Zugl.: Innsbruck, University, Diss., 2006.

Thesis--Copenhagen. / Bibliography: p. iv.