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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... section , we would like to give a short overview of the theoretical developments during the historical course . Starting in the early sixties , Katz and Postal ( 1964 ) proposed two mor- phemes Q and I ( abbreviations for question and ...
... section 2. Section 3 is then dedicated to a detailed discus- sion of the OHG data : in subsection 3.1 , a short summary on verb place- ment in OHG is given ; this serves as a general background for subsections 3.2.1 to 3.2.4 , in which ...
... sections . Furthermore , left - peripheral adverbial clauses modifying complement clauses will also be considered.11 3.2.1 . The resumptive pattern Examples for the resumptive pattern are given in ( 9 ) . ( 9 ) a . [ mit diu her quam zi ...
... sections have led us to conclude that OHG adverbial clauses had a different syntactic status from their modern counterparts . Although they were subordinate clauses ( they were introduced by a set of adverbial subordinators and the ...
... section of the MHG part of the Lancelot ( La I , pp . 1-65 ) : 29 30 More then twenty percent of preACS modifying declarative clauses ( roughly 280 cases altogether ) give rise to a verb - third effect like in ( 24 ) . Almost 80 percent ...
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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