The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery
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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.
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- Intro
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- 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
