The Syntax and Semantics of the Left PeripheryHorst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler Walter de Gruyter, 2012 M04 17 - 529 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. |
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... linguistic evidence ..... Josef Bayer 1 ...... 23 59 Head - movement in minimalism , and V2 as FORCE - marking ............... 97 Ellen Brandner In front of the prefield - inside or outside the clause ?. Franz Josef d'Avis Uniformity ...
... Linguistic Society ( Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft ) in Mannheim in the year 2002. The various contributions mainly deal with German , but also take into account languages with properties relevant for universal ...
... linguistic variations . Rizzi's ( 1997 ) investigations of left peripheral occurences of topic and focus constitutents in Italian led to a further extension of the set of func- tional categories . The resulting structural configurations ...
... linguistic Evidence , JOSEF BAYER deals with the organization of the left periphery of embedded and main clauses and its variations in terms of morphology - driven different realizations of feature structure . The general idea is that ...
... linguistics is called Linksver- setzung ( Left Dislocation ) , but which has to be distinguished sharply from the English construction Left Dislocation . One important difference be- tween these constructions is the sensitivity of the ...
Contents
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In front of the prefield inside or outside the clause? | 139 |
On the relation of whphrases and sentence mood in German | 179 |
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 of sentences | 313 |
Nonstandard whquestions and alternative checkers in Pagotto | 343 |
The particle li and the left periphery of Slavic yesno interrogatives | 385 |
Tense person and mood under attitudes | 431 |
Complementizer selection and the properties of complement clauses in German | 489 |
Index | 519 |
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