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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... lexical make - up of phrases in order to determine the force properties of clauses . Several approaches of today are elaborations of these ideas ( see e.g. Cheng 1991 ) . However , Ross ( 1967 ) observed that A - bar movement shifting ...
... lexical array . Since only CP and VP are phases , the phase object resembles con- figurations well known from the barriers framework , where adjunction to VP was a syntactic option as well as antecedent government from the left ...
... lexical specifi- cation of wh - phrases and the syntactic processes of A - bar and head movement . This theory uses the concept of the partition in the sense of Groenendijk and Stokhof ( 1982 , 1997 ) as a central term to represent the ...
... lexical elements , especially prepositions speci- fied by ' dass ' , which is lost if the complex elements occupy the COMP- position of subordinating clauses . In his contribution Decomposing the Left Periphery - Dialectal and Cross ...
... lexical items to mark explicitly the ( illucotioary ) FORCE of main clauses in the Germanic V / 2 languages . Based on Cheng's ( 1991 ) Clausal Typing Hypothesis , Brandner proposes the view that the specification for TENSE and FORCE ...
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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