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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 79
... theory which takes NP and IP to be boundig nodes . The generalization was that movement cannot cross more than one bounding node . Then , extraction from a complement clause has to leave an interme- diate trace in the left periphery of ...
... theory which discriminates the various clausal types by assigning them different logical types . According to this theory , declaratives are assigned the type < s , t > for propositions , imperatives denote properties of individual ...
... theory . A combination of syntactic and semantic theorizing about the left pe- riphery is proposed by the theory of Brandt et al . ( 1992 ) . There , sentence moods result from the interaction of sentence type features together with ...
... theory of Lohnstein ( 2000 , i.t.v. ) to achieve this . Constituent questions will be taken to be the basic mood of all sorts of wh - sentences , which can be modified as a semantic object by means of the embedding structure ( in the ...
... theory , the syntactic processes of A - bar and head- movement are also interpreted with respect to their contribution to the con- stitution of sentence mood . Under this theory , the semantic category of sentence mood 12 Horst ...
Contents
1 | |
23 | |
59 | |
97 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery Horst Lohnstein,Susanne Trissler Limited preview - 2004 |