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Topicalization, CLLD and the left periphery
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2004 Starting from a consideration of the internal make-up of adverbial clauses this paper shows that the widespread assumption that fronted arguments in English and CLLD constituents in Romance occupy the same position leads to a number of problems. I will conclude that the position occupied by English topicalized arguments differs from that of the CLLD ...
Haegeman, Liliane, Liliane Haegeman
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Czech left periphery: a preliminary analysis
Linguistica Brunensia, 2016 The consensus in the more recent literature on the Czech left periphery is that postulating only one functional projection above the highest head of the I-domain is not sufficient to account for certain data.
Jiří Kašpar
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The causal value of 'cómo': factivity, mirativity and illocutionary forces
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019 The interrogative element cómo ‘how’ of Spanish has a double meaning: that of manner and that causal. With the former, it behaves like a typical interrogative element, but, with the latter, its behavior manifests the specificities of por qué ‘why’.
Bernat Castro López
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Late Latin Verb Second: The Sentential Word Order of the “Itinerarium Egeriae”
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2017 In this article we undertake a systematic study of the Itinerarium Egeriae, one of the best known late Latin texts, to determine the proper characterization of the word order of the text and to consider in particular whether the Itinerarium Egeriae can ...
Adam Ledgeway
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C-T Inheritance and the left periphery in Old Japanese
Glossa, 2018 This paper proposes an analysis of movement to the left periphery in Old Japanese within the framework of C-T Inheritance. Particular attention is given to the fact that nominative subjects precede focused constituents in focus concord constructions ...
Edith Aldridge
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Pieces of the periphery: A glance into the cartography of Ibibio’s CP domain
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2016 Developments in cartographic observations of clause structure in Generative syntax predict strong formal linguistic universals among the ordering of phrases at the clausal edge.
Doherty, John-Patrick
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A Balkan View on the Left Periphery: Modal and Discourse Particles
Languages, 2021 The present paper discusses two sets of so-called particles in the Balkan languages, arguing that the correspondences attested in the E-languages reveal abstract properties at the level of the I-language.
Anna Roussou
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Deconstructing the “adverb plus complementizer construction” in Romanian [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 In this paper I examine the “adverb plus complementizer” construction (Ramat and Ricca 1998:212) in Romanian, seeking to establish its characteristics in more detail than usually achieved in the literatureon adverbs.
Cornelia Daniela Lupşa
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Recomplementation in English and Spanish: Delineating the CP space
Glossa, 2019 The paper aims to provide a characterization of the colloquial phenomenon of recomplementation (i.e., that1/que1 – XP[dislocated] – that2/que2 constructions) in both contemporary English and Spanish from a comparative perspective.
Julio Villa-García
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Topiks im Deutschen und Italienischen
Linguistik Online, 2021 The aim of this paper is i) to investigate the distribution of different topic types in the highest portion (found above valutative adverbs such as glücklicherweise and leider, Cinque 1999) of the German Mittelfeld, i. e. the clause portion found between
Federica Cognola +1 more
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