Main Clause Phenomena
New Horizons
Published on 27. June 2012
Book
Hardback
433 pages
978-90-272-5573-0 (ISBN)
Description
Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages, with a particular focus on particles and agreement markers, complementizers and verb second, and the licensing of MCP in different types of clauses. Besides enriching the empirical domain, this volume also engages with the theoretical question of how best to capture the distribution of MCP and, in particular, to what extent they are embeddable and why. The diverse patterns and analyses presented challenge the idea that MCP constitute a homogeneous class. Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons is of interest not just to scholars specializing in the study of MCP, but to all linguists interested in the syntax and/or semantics of the clause.
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The papers collected in "Main clause phenomena: New horizons" map out new ways in the research on Main Clause Phenomena. I believe that this volume will become an important reference on the matter. -- Francesc Gonzalez i Planas, Universitat de Girona, on Linguist List 24.1030 (2013)More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Weight
935 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5573-0 (9789027255730)
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Content
2. Main Clause Phenomena and the privilege of the root (by Aelbrecht, Lobke); 3. PART I. Explaining Main Clause Phenomena: The bigger picture; 4. Augmented structure preservation and the Tensed S Constraint (by Emonds, Joseph E.); 5. Root transformations & quantificational structure (by Larson, Richard K.); 6. Agreements that occur mainly in the main clause (by Miyagawa, Shigeru); 7. The syntax of MCP: Deriving the truncation account (by Haegeman, Liliane); 8. Towards an interface definition of root phenomena* (by De Cat, Cecile); 9. Explaining matrix/subordinate domain discrepancies (by Lightfoot, David W.); 10. Parenthetical main clauses - or not?: On appositives and quasi-relatives (by Vries, Mark de); 11. PART II. The Phenomena: A. PARTICLES AND AGREEMENT MARKERS; 12. Topic particle stranding and the structure of CP (by Nasu, Norio); 13. Splitting up force: Evidence from discourse particles (by Coniglio, Marco); 14. The syntactic position of Polish by and Main Clause Phenomena (by Tomaszewicz, Barbara); 16. A main clause complementizer (by Hill, Virginia); 17. The status of complementizers in the left periphery (by Manzini, Maria Rita); 18. Minimality and embedded V2 in Scandinavian (by Franco, Irene); 19. Against a uniform treatment of second position effects as force markers (by Migdalski, Krzysztof); 21. The syntax-discourse interface in adverbial clauses (by Endo, Yoshio); 22. Subjunctive mood, epistemic modality and Main Clause Phenomena in the analysis of adverbial clauses (by Laskova, Vesselina); 23. On two types of adverbial clauses allowing root-phenomena (by Frey, Werner); 24. Index