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Topicalization, CLLD and the left periphery [PDF]
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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Indexicality and left-periphery
Italian Journal of Linguistics, 2014 According to recent proposals in formal syntax, the left-most position in the C(omplementizer)-layer is dedicated to the representation of the context of utterance (call this hypothesis LP). This idea has had little impact on semantic theories of indexicals. The reason is that indexicals are regarded, after Kaplan’s (1989) Logic of Demonstratives (LD),
Delfitto D, Fiorin G
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Discourse particles in the left periphery [PDF]
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2004 This article analyses the German discourse particle wohl 'I suppose', 'presumably' as a syntactic and semantic modifier of the sentence types declarative and interrogative. It is shown that wohl does not contribute to the propositional, i.e. descriptive content of an utterance. Nor does it trigger an implicature.
Zimmermann, Malte
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, 2004 Abstract The goal of this chapter is to provide a new, refined formal characterization of the locality principle known as Relativized Minimality. At the same time, we will try to show how the study of locality interacts with the “cartographic approach,” the attempt to draw maps of syntactic configuratons as precise and detailed as ...
RIZZI, LUIGI
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Informational focus in Sicilian and the left periphery
, 2006 This book chapter is not currently available in ORA. Citation: Cruschina, S. (2006) Informational focu in Sicilian and the left periphery. In: Frascarelli, M. (ed.) Phases of interpretation (Studies in Generative Grammar 91).
Frascarelli, Mara, Cruschina, Silvio
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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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Rosa Luxemburg: Periphery and Perception [PDF]
, 2023 Rosa Luxemburg was a critical thinker and author of many political and social reflections which to readers of today seem quite up to date. Particularly in the Global South, there seems to exist a stronger interest in Luxemburg's work today, which is not ...
Jacob, Frank
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Reanalysis in Hungarian Comparative Subclauses [PDF]
, 2013 My paper presents a diachronic study of the Left Periphery of Hungarian comparative subclauses, primarily focussing on the development of the complementisers and the operator.
Bácskai-Atkári, Júlia
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, 2022 This article describes a pilot French/English contrastive study of some peripheral expressions. A “peripheral expression” is understood as one which occurs at the beginning (“left-peripheral” (LP)) or at the end (“right-peripheral” (RP)) of an utterance which acts as its host and over which it has scope.
Herment, Sophie +6 more
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Left peripheral arguments and discourse interface strategies in Yucatec Maya [PDF]
, 2012 Skopeteas S, Verhoeven E. Left peripheral arguments and discourse interface strategies in Yucatec Maya. In: Neeleman A, Kucerova I, eds. Contrasts and positions in information structure.
Verhoeven, Elisabeth +5 more
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