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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814942503321

Autore

Haegeman Liliane M. V.

Titolo

Adverbial clauses, main clause phenomena, and composition of the left periphery / / Liliane Haegeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

0-19-985876-4

0-19-985878-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax

Cartography of Syntactic Structures ; ; Volume 8

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Causative (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general - Transitivity

Grammar, Comparative and general - Adverbials

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

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

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Background: The Articulated Structure of the Left Periphery; 2. Arguments and Adjuncts on the Left Periphery; 3. Intervention Effects and the Left Periphery; 4. Main Clause Phenomena and Adverbial Clauses; 5. An Intervention Account; 6. Extending the Analysis: MCP in that Clauses; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This title uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compares it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages.