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The left periphery of Slovenian relative clauses

2016
This paper is concerned with the syntactic structure of relative clauses (RCs). It examines one particular facet of what Slovenian data can contribute to the discussion, and at the same time provides an analysis of the left periphery in Slovenian RCs.
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The left periphery of Japanese exclamatives*

Studia Linguistica, 2010
Abstract. In this paper, I intend to shed light on the fact that Japanese exclamatives, unlike their English counterparts, may not be embedded under factive verbs but instead may be embedded under a set of assertive predicates such assayandthink(first observed inOno 2006).
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Topic and left periphery in Shanghainese

Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2016
This paper aims to present a novel picture of the left periphery in Shanghainese with special reference to the position of topic. We find that, contrary to “major-vs.-sub-vs.-sub-sub-topic” distinction, all TopPs in Shanghainese land outside IP. The only landing site for pre-posed adverbs is Spec-TopP (rather than an independent Mod(ifier)P).
Han Weifeng, Shi Dingxu
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Objects and subjects in the left periphery

2018
Abstract A parallel is highlighted between the linguistic behavior of young Italian-speaking children as emerged in recent experimental work (Belletti and Manetti 2017) with comparative data from other Romance languages such as Balearic Catalan and (previous stages of) Spanish in the domain of a-Topics.
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The left and right periphery in Dutch

The Linguistic Review, 2009
This article discusses the information-structural status and the syntax of left and right dislocation constructions in Dutch. Four orthogonal information-structural features are proposed, and their distribution is systematically investigated.
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Discourse and the syntax of the left periphery

2015
In this work I consider the properties of Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) and Hanging Topic (HT) in Italian. Rizzi (1997) proposed that the syntactic space pertaining to the complementizer must be conceived of as a layer, i.e. as a set of hierarchically ordered projections, including those for contrastive focus and topics.
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Dutch pragmatic markers in the left periphery

Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 2021
Ton van der Wouden, Ad Foolen
exaly  

From preverbal focus to preverbal “left periphery”: The Ossetic clause architecture in areal and diachronic perspective

Lingua, 2012
David Erschler
exaly  

Left periphery and how-why alternations

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2008
Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, Tsai Wei-Tien Dylan
exaly  

The Left Periphery of the German Noun Phrase

Studia Linguistica, 2020
Dorian Roehrs
exaly