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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... structure and / or illocutionary force determination . As can be seen from the theoretical developments during the last dec- ades , questions of syntactic and semantic structure formation took place along rather different and separate ...
... structure . For left disloca- tion constructions not being subject to subjacency it follows that adjunction in the ... structure of lexical categories to the functional categories IP and CP . Establishing functional categorie as core ...
... structural configurations are suitible to rep- resent an articulated topic focus structure in syntax proper . This so - called split - CP - hypotheses claims that sequences of topic phrases may be grouped around a single focus phrase at ...
... structure . The general idea is that languages are uniform with regard to the features necessary to be expressed in the structure of certain clause - types but differ in the featu- ral makeup of available lexical forms , which leads to ...
... structure in one step by an adequate feature specifica- tion of available wh - expressions or to require additional ... structures and dynamic interpretation at the interface between clause and discourse . The contribution from ELLEN ...
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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