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The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery
Author | : Horst Lohnstein,Susanne Trissler |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2012-04-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110912111 |
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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.
The Left Periphery
Author | : Anne Sturgeon |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027255129 |
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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 Emergence of Hybrid Grammars
Author | : Enoch Oladé Aboh |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2015-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521769983 |
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This account of language acquisition in a multilingual context explains how hybrid grammars develop and can result in language change.
Event Structure and the Left Periphery
Author | : Katalin É. Kiss |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2006-08-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106018614104 |
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This book provides substantial new results in a novel field of research examining the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure. The studies of this volume examine the hypothesis that event structure correlates with word order, the presence or absence of the verbal particle, the [+/- specific] feature of the internal argument, aspect, focusing, negation, and negative quantification, among others. The results reported concern the telicising vs. perfectivizing role of the verbal particle; the syntactic and semantic differences of verbs denoting a delimited change, and those denoting creation or coming into being; evidence of viewpoint aspect in a language with no morphological viewpoint marking; the aspectual role of non-thematic objects; the source of the ‘exhaustive identification’ function of structural focus; the interaction of negation and aspect etc.
The Syntax of Surprise
Author | : Matteo Greco |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1527540928 |
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Negation is a universal syntactic phenomenon only employed in human languages. People use negative sentences in everyday conversations, and they display complex semantic and syntactic properties when doing so. Crucially, some languages employ negative sentences to assert affirmative and surprise propositions. A clear example of this is offered by Italian, as in: â ~E non (not) mi è scesa dal treno Maria?!â (TM) (â ~Maria got off the train!â (TM)). This special type of negation is called surprise negation, and it belongs to the class of expletive negation. This book sheds light on this puzzling phenomenon, by means of a theoretical analysis and an experimental study. It explores the contexts, mainly syntactic, in which negation receives its expletive interpretation, and considers whether expletive negation is grammatically distinct from standard negation.
Peripheries
Author | : David Adger,Cécile de Cat,George Tsoulas |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2006-01-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781402019104 |
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The syntactic periphery has become one of the most important areas of research in syntactic theory in recent years, due to the emergence of new research programmes initiated by Rizzi, Kayne and Chomsky. However research has concentrated on the empirical nature of clausal peripheries. The purpose of this volume is to explore the question of whether the notion of periphery has any real theoretical bite. An important consensus emerging from the volume is that the edges of certain syntactic expressions appear to be the locus of the connection between phrase structure, prosody, and information structure. This volume contains 16 papers by researchers in this area. The book: - contains an extensive introduction setting out the research questions addressed and setting the contributions in an overall theoretical context, - has a distinct comparative slant, - brings together work from a range of theoretical perspectives, while maintaining a unity of purpose, - could serve as the basis for a graduate course on peripheral positions, - contains papers addressing: = the question of the fine-grainedness of syntactic representations, = the relevance of syntactic edges to locality and semantic interpretation, = the nature of the dependencies connecting peripheral elements to the syntactic core. Audience: Academics and graduate students interested in syntax and its interfaces with semantics and prosody, acquisition of syntax, cross-linguistic comparison.
Adverbial Clauses Main Clause Phenomena and Composition of the Left Periphery
Author | : Liliane Haegeman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2012-10-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199858781 |
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Uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages.
The Syntax and Semantics of Split Constructions
Author | : A. Butler,E. Mathieu |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2004-04-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780230501607 |
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Split constructions are very widespread in natural languages. The separation of the semantic restriction of a quantifier from that quantifier is a typical example of such a construction. This study addresses the problem that such discontinuous strings exhibit a number of locality constraints, including intervention effects. These are shown to follow from the interaction of a minimalist syntax with a semantics that directly assigns a model-theoretic interpretation to syntactic logical forms. The approach is shown to have wide empirical coverage and a conceptual simplicity. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of syntax and semantics.