The Left Periphery: The Interaction of Syntax, Pragmatics and Prosody in Czech

The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Per

📁 The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery

✍ Horst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

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

The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Per

📁 The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery

✍ Horst Lohnstein (editor); Susanne Trissler (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<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 foc

The Syntax-Information Structure Interfa

📁 The Syntax-Information Structure Interface: Clausal Word Order and the Left Periphery in Galician

✍ Timothy Gupton 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<p>It is quite remarkable that, after over a half-century of research in generative grammar, there is still uncertainty and debate surrounding the analysis of preverbal subjects in a number of null-subject languages. The implications of this debate are far-reaching for generative theory: if preverba

The Syntax-Information Structure Interfa

📁 The Syntax-Information Structure Interface: Clausal Word Order and the Left Periphery in Galician

✍ Timothy Gupton 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<p>It is quite remarkable that, after over a half-century of research in generative grammar, there is still uncertainty and debate surrounding the analysis of preverbal subjects in a number of null-subject languages. The implications of this debate are far-reaching for generative theory: if preverba

Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces

📁 Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces

✍ Haruo Kubozono, Junko Ito, Armin Mester 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

The Syntax of Surprise: Expletive Negati

📁 The Syntax of Surprise: Expletive Negation and the Left Periphery

✍ Matteo Greco 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 🌐 English

Negation is a universal syntactic phenomenon only employed in human languages. People use negative sentences in everyday conversations, and they display complex semantic and syntactic properties when doing so. Crucially, some languages employ negative sentences to assert affirmative and surprise pro

The Left Periphery: The Interaction of Syntax, Pragmatics and Prosody in Czech

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