The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (523 p.)
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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

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