The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery / / ed. by Horst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Axel, Katrin,; Bayer, Josef,; Brandner, Ellen,; Bredel, Ursula,; Eden, Jan,; Frey, Werner,; Lohnstein, Horst,; Lutz, Uli,; Meinunger, André,; Obenauer, Hans-Georg,; Schwabe, Kerstin,; Stechow, Arnim von,; Trissler, Susanne,; Wöllstein, Angelika,; d’Avis, Franz Josef,
• HerausgeberIn: Lohnstein, Horst,; Trissler, Susanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Interface Explorations [IE] , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (523 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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