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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... clauses : ( i ) with König and van der Auwera's ( 1988 ) proposal that a continuum from parataxis to embed- ding ... root clauses . The main evidence discussed in his paper comes from dialectal data from German and Dutch with doubly ...
... root clauses and the syntactic representation of illocutionary force . Essentially following the idea that verb - second phenomena should be explained as a process of visualization of features of illocutionary force , Bayer argues that ...
... root clause or to be positioned in the left periphery of a root clause . A variant with two gaps apparently building ... clauses . Lutz concludes that ET , while being a root phenomenon , is restricted to the syntax of verb - final ...
... sentence mood ( ' Satzmodus ' ) . A corollary of this analysis is that zu infinitives do not habe root properties , in contrast to infinitives which are based on the 1st or 3rd status . Finally , so - called root infinitives are ...
... clauses leads to the conclu- sion that feature scattering or joint ... root clause . 8. How does Illocutionary Force enter the tree ? We have ... root phenomenon , and that the embedded clause primarily does not have a layer of force at ...
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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