The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery
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The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery

  1. 529 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Content
  2. Theoretical developments of the left periphery
  3. The syntactic integration of preposed adverbial clauses on the German left periphery: A diachronic perspective
  4. Decomposing the left periphery. Dialectal and cross-linguistic evidence
  5. Head-movement in minimalism, and V2 as FORCE-marking
  6. In front of the prefield – inside or outside the clause?
  7. Uniformity and variation: On the relation of wh-phrases and sentence mood in German
  8. Notes on the syntax and the pragmatics of German Left Dislocation
  9. Inflectional morphology and sentence mood in German
  10. ET, parasitic gaps, and German clause structure
  11. Verb position, verbal mood and the anchoring (potential) of sentences
  12. Nonstandard wh-questions and alternative checkers in Pagotto
  13. The particle li and the left periphery of Slavic yes/no interrogatives
  14. Binding by verbs: Tense, person, and mood under attitudes
  15. Complementizer selection and the properties of complement clauses in German
  16. Index