Mapping The Left Periphery
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The Left Periphery
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Author : Anne Sturgeon
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2008
The Left Periphery written by Anne Sturgeon and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This study of the interaction of syntax, pragmatics, and prosody in left peripheral positions focuses on two left dislocation constructions in Czech, Hanging Topic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation. The structure of the left periphery is delineated though a thorough description and analysis of these constructions with respect to their syntactic behavior, discourse function and prosody. Following recent work on the Syntax-Phonology interface, prosody in these constructions is shown to interact in interesting ways with the narrow syntax. Unexpected patterns of left-edge resumption are explained though the role of the PF component of the grammar.
Mapping The Left Periphery
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Author : Nicola Munaro
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Mapping The Left Periphery written by Nicola Munaro and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.
The papers in this volume develop and challenge our understanding of the fine structure of the left periphery, and of the theory of sentence structure in general.
Adverbial Clauses Main Clause Phenomena And Composition Of The Left Periphery
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Author : Liliane Haegeman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-08
Adverbial Clauses Main Clause Phenomena And Composition Of The Left Periphery written by Liliane Haegeman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages.
Mapping The Left Periphery
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Author : Paola Beninca
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-16
Mapping The Left Periphery written by Paola Beninca and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Mapping the Left Periphery, the fifth volume in "The Cartography of Syntactic Structures," is entirely devoted to the functional articulation of the so-called complementizer system, the highest part of sentence structure. The papers collected here identify, on the basis of substantial empirical evidence, new atoms of functional structure, which encode specific features that are typically expressed in the left periphery. The volume also submits the richly articulated CP structure to further crosslinguistic checking. The research presented here has led to the identification of new, important restrictions in the relative sequence of elements appearing in the left periphery. With contributions from African languages, Chinese, Hungarian, Romance languages, and Italian dialects, Mapping the Left Periphery will be of interest to syntacticians working on comparative syntax, and more specifically on Romance grammar.
Main Clause Phenomena
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Author : Lobke Aelbrecht
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2012
Main Clause Phenomena written by Lobke Aelbrecht and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Beyond Functional Sequence
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Author : Ur Shlonsky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
Beyond Functional Sequence written by Ur Shlonsky and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The 16 articles in this collection will advance both empirical and theoretical work in cartography
Crosslinguistic Research In Syntax And Semantics
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Author : Raffaella Zanuttini
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2006-05-19
Crosslinguistic Research In Syntax And Semantics written by Raffaella Zanuttini and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Presenting cutting-edge research in syntax and semantics, this important volume furthers theoretical claims in generative linguistics and represents a significant addition to present scholarship in the field. Leading scholars present crosslinguistic studies dealing with clausal architecture, negation, and tense and aspect, and the issue of whether a statistical model can by itself capture the richness of human linguistic abilities. Taken together, these contributions elegantly show how theoretical tools can propel our understanding of language beyond pretheoretical descriptions, especially when combined with the insight and skills of linguists who can analyze difficult and complex data. Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics covers a range of topics currently at the center of lively debate in the linguistic literature, such as the structure of the left periphery of the clause, the proper treatment of negative polarity items, and the role of statistical learning in building a model of linguistic competence. The ten original contributions offer an excellent balance of novel empirical description and theoretical analysis, applied to a wide range of languages, including Dutch, German, Irish English, Italian, Malagasy, Malay, and a number of medieval Romance languages. Scholars and students of semantics, syntax, and linguistic theory will find it to be a valuable resource for ongoing scholarship and advanced study.
A Criterial Approach To The Cartography Of V2
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Author : Giuseppe Samo
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2019-12-05
A Criterial Approach To The Cartography Of V2 written by Giuseppe Samo and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume provides a mechanism to uncover the extremely rich split-CP of V2 languages, in both root and embedded clauses, on the basis of theoretical arguments and empirical findings. The movement of the inflected verbal head is triggered to agree with the profiled informational value of the fronted XP. The V2 “constraint” shall thus be observed as a sum of micro-V2s, in which the inflected head creates Spec-Head configurations with the activated criterial positions in the relevant context. The “second linear” position of the verb results from the movement of the inflected verb to the highest activated criterial head. In other words, there is no “bottleneck effect”, but ordinary violations in terms of locality between fronted XPs. This monograph is aimed principally at postgraduate students and researchers interested in the description of natural languages adopting the guidelines of the Cartography of Syntactic Structures.
Discourse Related Features And Functional Projections
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Author : Silvio Cruschina
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-13
Discourse Related Features And Functional Projections written by Silvio Cruschina and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this volume Silvio Cruschina uses a comparative analysis to determine the syntax of the functional projections associated with discourse-related features, and to account for the marked word orders found in Romance-particularly in the fronting phenomena. Several language-specific analyses of discourse-related phenomena have been proposed in the literature, including studies on the notions of topic and focus in Romance, but the lack of a uniform definition of these notions, together with different assumptions in relation to the triggering features, has led to the perception that the Romance languages show many distinct and heterogeneous properties with respect to dislocation and fronting constructions. This volume is intended to complement the existing literature by integrating recent work on the topic and by emphasizing original and unifying reflections that combine and coordinate diverse elements. Cruschina's investigations clarify fundamental notions such as topic, focus, and contrast, drawing on new data from Sicilian, Sardinian, and other Romance varieties.
The Cartography Of Chinese Syntax
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Author : Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
The Cartography Of Chinese Syntax written by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. The chapters in this book map out the "topography" of a variety of constructions in Chinese, specifically information structure, wh-question formation, and peripheral functional elements. The syntactic structure of Chinese makes it an ideal language for this line of research, offering a window into the origin of heavily "scrambled" constructions often observed in other languages.