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The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery /

The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery / ed. by Horst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler. - 1 online resource (523 p.) - Interface Explorations [IE] , 9 1861-4167 ; .

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

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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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In English.

9783110181210 9783110912111

10.1515/9783110912111 doi


Generative grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Semantics.
Syntax.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

P295 ǂb S936 2004eb

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