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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... questions , free relatives , and wh - exclamatives from other factors than a ... questions proposed by Gro- enendijk and Stokhof ( 1982 , 1997 ) and the ... standard assumption , the resumptive pronoun ( RP ) of GLD may be positioned ...
... standard V - second clauses ) with regard to these properties . In addition , the syntax of GLD is considered . It is demonstrated that GLD is sensitive to the standard ... questions about inflectional morphology , functional categories , and ...
... standard questions " , they can convey other meanings , although it remains largely unclear what nonstandard question interpretations there are and where they have their sources . HANS - GEORG OBENAUER'S contribution Nonstandard wh - ...
... standard questions . Rather , they have each a different syntactic structure extending that of standard questions . The conclusion is that Universal Grammar makes structural means avail- able for syntactic encoding of nonstandard question ...
... questions . I will finally present evidence that verb - movement to the C - position ( ' I - to - C movement ' ) is ... standard languages reveal phonetically . Sections 3 and 4 turn to a consideration of East - Asian ( Japanese and Koreanand ...
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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