The Syntax Of Functional Left Peripheries
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The syntax of functional left peripheries
Author | : Julia Bacskai-Atkari |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2023-10-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783985540792 |
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This book provides a novel analysis for the syntax of the clausal left periphery, focusing on various finite clause types and especially on embedded clauses. It investigates how the appearance of multiple projections interacts with economy principles and with the need for marking syntactic information overtly. In particular, the proposed account shows that a flexible approach assuming only a minimal number of projections is altogether favourable to cartographic approaches. The main focus of the book is on West Germanic, in particular on English and German, yet other Germanic and non-Germanic languages are also discussed for comparative purposes.
The syntax of functional left peripheries
Author | : Julia Bacskai-Atkari |
Publsiher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2023-10-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783961104215 |
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This book provides a novel analysis for the syntax of the clausal left periphery, focusing on various finite clause types and especially on embedded clauses. It investigates how the appearance of multiple projections interacts with economy principles and with the need for marking syntactic information overtly. In particular, the proposed account shows that a flexible approach assuming only a minimal number of projections is altogether favourable to cartographic approaches. The main focus of the book is on West Germanic, in particular on English and German, yet other Germanic and non-Germanic languages are also discussed for comparative purposes.
The Evolution of Functional Left Peripheries in Hungarian Syntax
Author | : Katalin É Kiss |
Publsiher | : Oxford Studies in Diachronic a |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198709855 |
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"The book specifically focuses on the restructuring of Hungarian syntax from head-final to head-initial, which started in the Proto-Hungarian age. ... The book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in historical and diachronic linguistics, as well as all those interested in the mechanisms and theory of linguistic change."--Dust jacket flap.
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.
Peripheries
Author | : David Adger,Cécile de Cat,George Tsoulas |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2006-04-18 |
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.
Mapping the Left Periphery
Author | : Paola Beninca,Nicola Munaro |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011-02-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199842310 |
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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.
Functional Heads Across Time
Author | : Barbara Egedi,Veronika Hegedüs |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2022-07-04 |
Genre | : Functionalism (Linguistics) |
ISBN | : 9780198871538 |
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This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force behind those changes. Structural developments are explained in terms of the reanalysis of parts of the functional sequences in the clausal, nominal, and adpositional domains, through changes in parameter settings and feature specifications. The chapters discuss 'microdiachronic' syntactic changes that often have implications for large-scale syntactic effects, such as word order variation, the emergence (and lexicalization) of syntactic projections, grammaticalization, and changes in information-structural properties. The volume contains both case studies of individual languages, such as German, Hungarian, and Romanian, and detailed investigations of cross-linguistic phenomena, based primarily on digital corpora of historical and dialectal data.