The Left Periphery

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The Clause Structure Of Wolof

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Author : Harold Torrence
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01-29

The Clause Structure Of Wolof written by Harold Torrence 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 2013-01-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This volume investigates the clausal syntax of Wolof, an understudied Atlantic language of Senegal. The goals of the work are descriptive, analytical, and comparative, with a focus on the structure of the left periphery and left peripheral phenomena. The book includes detailed examination of the morpho‑syntax of wh‑questions, successive cyclicity, subject marking, relative clauses, topic/focus articulation, and complementizer agreement. Novel data from Wolof is used to evaluate and extend theoretical proposals concerning the structure of the Complementizer Phrase (CP) and Tense Phrase (TP). It is argued that Wolof provides evidence for the promotion analysis of relative clauses, an “exploded” CP and TP, and for analyses that treat relative clauses as composed of a determiner with a CP complement. It is further argued that Wolof has a set of silent wh‑expressions and these are compared to superficially similar constructions in colloquial German, Bavarian, Dutch, and Norwegian. The book also presents a comparison of complementizer agreement across a number of related and unrelated languages. Data from Indo‑European (Germanic varieties, French, Irish), Niger‑Congo (Atlantic, Bantu, Gur), and Semitic (Arabic) languages put the Wolof phenomena in a larger typological context by showing the range of variation in complementizer agreement systems.

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.

The Syntax And Semantics Of The Left Periphery

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Author : Horst Lohnstein
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2004

The Syntax And Semantics Of The Left Periphery written by Horst Lohnstein and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This series consists of collected volumes and monographs about specific issues dealing with interfaces among the subcomponents of linguistic structure: phonology-morphology, phonology-syntax, syntax-semantics, syntax-morphology, and syntax-lexicon. Recent linguistic research has recognized that the subcomponents of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. What is currently under debate is the actual range of such interactions and their most appropriate representation in grammar, and this is precisely the focus of this series. Specifically, it provides a general overview of various topics by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components. The books function as a state-of- the-art report of research.

Latin Embedded Clauses

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Author : Lieven Jozef Maria Danckaert
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2012

Latin Embedded Clauses written by Lieven Jozef Maria Danckaert 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.

This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with formal theoretical analysis. The empirical focus is word order in embedded clauses, with special attention to clauses in which one or more constituents surface to the left of a subordinating conjunction. It is proposed that two such types of left peripheral fronting should be distinguished. The proposed analyses shed light not only on the clausal left periphery, but also on the overall structure of the Latin clause. The study is couched in the framework of generative grammar, but since a thorough introduction is provided, no special background in formal syntax is required. Major topics touched upon are word order, information structure, locality, and the syntax of pied-piping. The book covers both synchronic and diachronic topics of Latin syntax, and is of interest for classical philologists, historical linguists, and formal syntacticians.

The Emergence Of Hybrid Grammars

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Author : Enoch Oladé Aboh
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-27

The Emergence Of Hybrid Grammars written by Enoch Oladé Aboh and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This account of language acquisition in a multilingual context explains how hybrid grammars develop and can result in language change.

Elements Of Grammar

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Author : Liliane Haegeman
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1997-07-31

Elements Of Grammar written by Liliane Haegeman and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-07-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

The aim of this Handbook is to provide a forum in which some of the generative syntacticians whose work has had an impact on theoretical syntax over the past 20 years are invited to present their views on one or more aspects of current syntactic theory. The following authors have contributed to the volume: Mark Baker, Michael Brody, Jane Grimshaw, James McCloskey, Jean-Yves Pollock, and Luigi Rizzi. Each contribution focuses on one specific aspect of the grammar. As a general theme, the papers are concerned with the question of the composition of the clause, i.e. what kind of components the clause is made up of, and how these components are put together in the clause. The introduction to the volume provides the backdrop for the papers and highlights some of the developments that have occurred in theoretical syntax in the last ten years. Elements of Grammar is destined for an audience of linguists working in the generative framework.

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.

Discourse Functions At The Left And Right Periphery

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Author : Kate Beeching
language : en
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Release Date : 2014

Discourse Functions At The Left And Right Periphery written by Kate Beeching and has been published by Brill Academic Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This volume tests the hypothesis that elements at the left periphery of discourse units have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role.

Studies On Old High German Syntax

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Author : Katrin Axel
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2007

Studies On Old High German Syntax written by Katrin Axel 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 2007 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

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The Syntax And Semantics Of The Left Periphery

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Author : Horst Lohnstein
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-04-17

The Syntax And Semantics Of The Left Periphery written by Horst Lohnstein and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

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.