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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... discussing the advantages of the so - called partition approach for the semantics of questions , Bayer argues that this feature is necessary for wh - interrogatives as well . Driven by Theoretical developments of the left periphery 7.
... discussing various proposals of verb classification using syntactic and morphological criteria for class distinctions , André Meinunger claims that a correspondence alignment holds that exactly those predicates and grammatical ...
... discussions of the various topics , Amina Hallab and Marco Musienko for their untiring effort in organizing , correcting , and formatting the text over and over again , Heidi Altmann for proof reading and phrasing the English version ...
... discussing these word order patterns . In the earlier OHG prose documents ( Isidor , the Monsee Fragments and , arguably , Tatian ) , there are a number of sentences that exhibit XP- pronoun - Vfin orders independent of the Latin source ...
... discussion about the historical emergence of an elaborated inven- tory of adverbial subordinators has a long history ( cf. e.g. Erdmann 1874 : 46ff . , Behaghel 1928 : 43-355 , Fleischmann 1973 , Lenerz 1984 : 104ff . on German ...
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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