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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... sentence is a question ( resp . imperative ) , the function of the wh - phrase ( s ) was to specify the questioned elements . This means that Katz and Postal assumed a mood or force marking element at the left periphery together with ...
... wh - exclamatives from other factors than a wh - lexeme's feature set ( e.g. , from the syntactic envi- ronment , intonation etc. ) , the feature [ + wh ] could serve as a general feature motivating the movement of wh - phrases rather ...
... phrase , Frey argues that base gen- eration of the LP phrase , which enters ... wh - interrogatives while the second does not , as Lohnstein ( 2000 , 2001 ) ... wh- interrogative , imperative ) . Lohnstein / Bredel assume that the verbal ...
... wh - questions and alternative checkers in Pagotto addresses these questions and develops an analysis in which the syntactic structure , and particularly the left sentence periphery , play a crucial part . This approach thus opposes a ...
... wh - phrase has been extracted from the complement clause : ( 23 ) huuaz uellet ir daz ih . iu tuoe . [ cp what ; want you [ cp t ; that I you t ; do ... ' What do you want me to do for you ? ' quid uultis ut faciam uobis ? ( M XIV.24 ) ...
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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