The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-3-11-018121-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 523 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 937 g

Reihe: Interface Explorations [IE]

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.

Zielgruppe

Teachers and Students of Linguistics and German Studies, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trissler, Susanne

Lohnstein, Horst

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Horst Lohnstein is researcher and Privatdozent at the University of Cologne, Germany. Susanne Trissler is researcher at the University of Konstanz, Germany.