The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery

✍ Scribed by Horst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 529
Series: Interface Explorations
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Subjects

Grammar;Words, Language & Grammar;Reference;Linguistics;Words, Language & Grammar;Reference;Semantics;Words, Language & Grammar;Reference

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