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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... topic and focus constitutents in Italian led to a further extension of the set of func- tional categories . The resulting structural configurations are suitible to rep- resent an articulated topic focus structure in syntax proper . This ...
Horst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler. have become a prominent topic in semantic investigations . The truth and entailment conditions have been assumed to be inappropriate in connection with imperatives and interrogatives and had to be ...
... topic marking constructions , this paper dem- onstrates that this is , in fact , only true for the former construction . To prove that GLD necessarily marks an aboutness topic , Frey first shows that , con- tra the standard assumption ...
... topic promotion device , which ( iii ) necessarily continues the current discourse unit . GLD differs crucially from the HTLD construction ( and from standard V - second clauses ) with regard to these properties . In addition , the ...
... topic of V / 2 em- bedded clauses in German , which appear - beside their interpretation as marked complement clauses - to have a reading as an assertion made by the speaker . The embedded clauses in ( 3 ) show the V / 2 pattern which ...
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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