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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... derivation of the realized illocution . This is shown by the incompatibility of ICs with real information questions as main clauses , and restrictions on the independent use of ob / whether- and wh - clauses . In a further step , d'Avis ...
... derivation of some general proper- ties of the various sentence moods ( declarative , y / n - interrogative , wh- interrogative , imperative ) . Lohnstein / Bredel assume that the verbal inflec- tional categories mood and tense project ...
... derivation to converge . A core topic is that the attitude verb functions as a verbal quantifier which binds the variables in the embedded clause . In ( 8a ) , the feature 3rd is not interpreted , but the features Pres and Ind are ...
... Derivation by phase . In A Life in Language , Michael Kenstowicz , and Ken Hale ( ed . ) . Cambridge , Mass .: MIT Press . Cinque , Guglielmo 1999 Adverbs and Functional Heads : A Cross - Linguistic Perspective . Oxford : Oxford ...
... derivation . Although neither C nor < disj > materialize at the PF - side of the derivation , these elements lead to an LF - representation as in ( 34 ) . Of course , the feature < disj > will not be checked off in this case because ...
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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