Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View

The Editors: Jacek Witkoś is Professor of English Linguistics employed in the School of English of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). His research interests include general linguistics, generative linguistics and the comparative Polish-English grammar. Gisbert Fanselow is Professor of Syntax at the University of Potsdam (Germany). His research interests include generative syntax and psycholinguistics.

• Contents: Adam Biały: Results and feature specification of Polish prefixes – Ewa Bułat: Empty subjects revisited and revised cross-linguistically – Bożena Cetnarowska: Genitive/possessive variation and syntactic optionality in an optimality-theoretic framework – Mojmír Dočekal: WCO and focus in Czech – Gisbert Fanselow/Caroline Féry: Missing superiority effects: Long movement in German (and other languages) – Katarzyna Miechowicz- Mathiasen/Paweł Scheffler: A corpus-based analysis of the peculiar behaviour of the Polish verb podobać się – Michael Moss: Functional projections in Polish – Gereon Müller: Some consequences of an impoverishment-based approach to morphological richness and Pro-Drop – Agnieszka Pysz: On the placement of prenominal adjectives with complements: Evidence from Old English – Radek Šimík: Specificity in (Czech) relative clauses – Katarzyna Sówka: Non-uniform approach to dative verbs in English – Helen Trugman: Move versus merge: DP-internal modifiers – Christopher Wilder: The PP-with-DP construction – Jacek Witkoś: Control and predicative adjectives in Polish.