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Topicalizations, left dislocations and the left-periphery [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2017 My intention in this paper is to provide as complete an overview as possible of the different types of topic phrases in Latin. After setting out the characteristics and properties of what I call Dislocations (Hanging Topics and ClLD) and Topicalizations,
Bernard Bortolussi
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Microvariation and Change in the Romance Left Periphery
Probus, 2022 AbstractDespite the vast literature which has accrued on the fine structure of the Romance left periphery, there exists no diachronic account of the emergence of the considerable microvariation between Romance varieties today. Focussing in particular on the syntax of French and Venetan varieties, this article suggests that certain northern Romance ...
Sam Wolfe
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Growing trees: The acquisition of the left periphery
Glossa, 2021 We suggest here a Growing Trees approach for the description of the acquisition of various syntactic structures in Hebrew, based on the main results reported in Friedmann and Reznick (this volume) and on our own research on a corpus of natural ...
Adriana Belletti +2 more
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The Syntax and Semantics of Cantonese Particles in the Left Periphery
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2020 Adopting the cartographic approach, this paper proposes syntactic positions for all left-periphery particles above the tense phrase (TP) in Cantonese.
Wakefield John C.
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Cartography, Left Periphery and Criterial Positions: an interview with Luigi Rizzi [PDF]
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2020 In this interview Luigi Rizzi discusses the ‘heuristic capacity’ of cartography and the functional lexicon, reinforcing important empirical issues for syntactic theory. Among the issues addressed by Rizzi are the tension between invariance and variation,
Sandra Quarezemin
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Cartography: Innateness or Convergent Cultural Evolution?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Haspelmath argues that linguists who conduct comparative research and try to explain patterns that are general across languages can only consider two sources of these patterns: convergent cultural evolution of languages, which provides functional ...
Deniz Satık
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Subject and non-subject ex-situ focus in Dagbani
Glossa, 2020 This paper offers a description and account of the patterns of ex-situ focus in Dagbani. We show that there are two syntactic strategies for creating ex-situ focus in the language, one involving A’-movement to the left periphery, and the second involving
Peter William Smith +1 more
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Cº realizations along the left edge across English and Spanish
Languages, 2023 This paper investigates the lexicalization of the complementizer that/que in English and Spanish varieties in different contexts along the left edge of the clause.
Julio Villa-García
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Towards a Typology of wh-Doubling in Northern Italian Dialects
Languages, 2023 In this work we examine the distribution of wh-in-situ and short (i.e., clause internal) wh-doubling in Northern Italian dialects with the purpose of showing that wh-in-situ and wh-doubling are not unitary phenomena, since they are subject to different ...
Nicola Munaro, Cecilia Poletto
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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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