The Syntax and Semantics of the Left PeripheryHorst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler Walter de Gruyter, 2004 - 523 pages The left periphery of clausal structures has been a prominent topic of research in generative linguistics during the last decades. Closer examination of its properties unfolds a rich array of perspectives like the status of barriers for extraction and government, the articulation of the topic focus structure, the fixation of wh-scope, the marking of clausal types, the interaction of syntactic structure with inflectional morphology as well as the determination of sentence mood and illocutionary force to mention just a few. The purpose of this book is to collect different and relevant studies in this field and to give a general overview of the various theoretical approaches concerned with morphological, syntactic and semantic properties together with the diachronic development of the left periphery. |
Contents
Theoretical developments of the left periphery | 1 |
The syntactic integration of preposed adverbial clauses | 23 |
Josef Bayer | 133 |
In front of the prefield inside or outside the clause? | 139 |
Notes on the syntax and the pragmatics of German Left Dislocation | 203 |
Inflectional morphology and sentence mood in German | 235 |
ET parasitic gaps and German clause structure | 265 |
Verb position verbal mood and the anchoring potential | 313 |
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The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery Horst Lohnstein,Susanne Trissler Limited preview - 2012 |