The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery / / ed. by Horst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Axel, Katrin,; Bayer, Josef,; Brandner, Ellen,; Bredel, Ursula,; Eden, Jan,; Frey, Werner,; Lohnstein, Horst,; Lutz, Uli,; Meinunger, André,; Obenauer, Hans-Georg,; Schwabe, Kerstin,; Stechow, Arnim von,; Trissler, Susanne,; Wöllstein, Angelika,; d’Avis, Franz Josef,
• HerausgeberIn: Lohnstein, Horst,; Trissler, Susanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Interface Explorations [IE] , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (523 p.)
• Other title: i-iv --; Content --; Theoretical developments of the left periphery --; The syntactic integration of preposed adverbial clauses on the German left periphery: A diachronic perspective --; Decomposing the left periphery. Dialectal and cross-linguistic evidence --; Head-movement in minimalism, and V2 as FORCE-marking --; In front of the prefield – inside or outside the clause? --; Uniformity and variation: On the relation of wh-phrases and sentence mood in German --; Notes on the syntax and the pragmatics of German Left Dislocation --; Inflectional morphology and sentence mood in German --; ET, parasitic gaps, and German clause structure --; Verb position, verbal mood and the anchoring (potential) of sentences --; Nonstandard wh-questions and alternative checkers in Pagotto --; The particle li and the left periphery of Slavic yes/no interrogatives --; Binding by verbs: Tense, person, and mood under attitudes --; Complementizer selection and the properties of complement clauses in German --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110912111; 9783110636970; 9783110742961
• ISSN: 1861-4167
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110912111
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Horst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler.

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.