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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... sentence mood in German .................. 179 Jan Eden Notes on the syntax and the pragmatics of German Left Dislocation ...... 203 Werner Frey Inflectional morphology and sentence mood in German Horst Lohnstein and Ursula Bredel ET ...
... sentence is a question ( resp . imperative ) , the function of the wh - phrase ( s ) was to specify the questioned elements . This means that Katz and Postal assumed a mood or force marking element at the left periphery together with ...
... mood , and force play a crucial role in this set . As pointed out by Rizzi ( 1997 ) , the domain in which force ... sentence expresses . In the minimalist framework ( Chomsky 1998 , 2001 ) , the derivational objects correponding to the ...
... sentence types and is hardly relatable to a uniform treatment of the phenomenon of a single mood com- ponent . Another approach , developed by Groenendijk and Stokhof ( 1982 , 1997 ) , analyzed questions as index dependent propositions ...
... sentence moods result from the interaction of sentence type features together with lexically determined phrasal features . Only if the latter c - commands the former , sentence mood effects take place , thereby accounting for so ...
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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