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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... semantic interpretation of the pertinent clauses and leads to systematic effects with respect to information structure and / or illocutionary force determination . As can be seen from the theoretical developments during the last dec ...
... semantics has dealt with questions about the semantic structure and objects representing the meaning of declaratives and non - declaratives . Especially since Montague ( 1974 ) , non - declaratives have become a prominent topic in ...
... semantic content of correct answers . It was Hamblin ( 1976 ) who proposed the idea to analyze the semantic value of a question as the set of all possible answers to it . His main idea consists in the extension of the combination of ...
... semantics for the representation of question meanings in Transparent Logical Form . The wh- feature at the left periphery receives a semantic interpretation of the form λq λpl p = q ] , deriving a set of propositions by functional ...
... semantic representation for the lexical content of the wh - feature . Among the prominent elements in the left periphery are wh - phrases . In many languages , either one or all of these phrases have to be moved to the leftmost position ...
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 |