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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Results 1-5 of 84
... interpretation of the pertinent clauses and leads to systematic effects with respect to information structure and ... interpretation of declarative in contrast to interrogative and imperative sentence types . Omitting a semantic ...
... interpretation at the interface between clause and discourse . The contribution from ELLEN BRANDNER Head - Movement in Minimal- ism and V / 2 as FORCE - marking addresses questions of clausal typing in a minimalist framework under the ...
... interpretation resulting from the ability of scalar ICs to appear in the prefield and some problematic variants of ICs which seem to resemble left dislocation constructions . The contribution of JAN EDEN Uniformity and Variation : On ...
... interpretation for these elements is proposed which assigns to each element a unique meaning being parameterized ... interpreted with respect to their contribution to the con- stitution of sentence mood . Under this theory , the semantic ...
... interpretation as marked complement clauses - to have a reading as an assertion made by the speaker . The embedded ... interpreted either as complement clauses or as assertions made by the speaker , movement of the embedded clause to a ...
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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The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery Horst Lohnstein,Susanne Trissler Limited preview - 2004 |