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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464100903321

Titolo

The syntax and semantics of the left periphery / / edited by Horst Lohnstein and Susanne Trissler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

3-11-091211-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (529 p.)

Collana

Interface explorations ; ; 9

Classificazione

ET 750

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Semantics

Generative grammar

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.