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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... variable bound by the wh - quantifier . It is generally acknowledged that , besides their interpretation as " standard questions " , they can convey other meanings , although it remains largely unclear what nonstandard question ...
... variable for the possessive pronoun . However , the feature 1st Person does not appear in any relevant sense at some bound variable in the quantificational struc- ture in ( 7 ) b . This process of feature deletion - namely that features ...
... variables in the matrix sentence are interpreted , while the features of the ( bound ) vari- ables in the embedded clause are deleted . The matrix verb hopes is assumed to be a ( verbal ) quantifier that simultaneously binds the ...
... Variables in Syntax . Ph.D. diss . , MIT , Cam- bridge , Mass . Focus . In The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory , Shalom Lappin ( ed . ) , 271- 297. Cambridge , Mass .: Blackwell . Stechow , Arnim von 1989 1992 2001 Focusing and ...
... variable , is missing : Q- morpheme and QUOT - morpheme remain essentially the same . Many head - final languages with agglutinative morphology show a de- tailed landscape of morphemes which correspond to features one associates with ...
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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