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Movement in the Afrikaans left periphery: A view from anti-locality
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 It has been convincingly argued that the so-called “left periphery” of the sentence makes available multiple positions which host topicalised and focalised phrases, among other elements.
Berghoff, Robyn
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On topic and focus in Standard Arabic
Heliyon, 2019 Adopting the Cartography research program (Rizzi, 1997, 2001, 2004), the present work investigates the CP layer in Standard Arabic (SA); specifically, the nature and position of topicalized and object focused phrases in the left periphery. The paper also
Abdulkhaliq Alazzawie
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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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Reconsidering variation and change in the Medieval French subject system
Glossa, 2020 This article draws on a novel corpus of medieval texts to explore diachronic change in the French subject system. It is argued that the relative frequency of null, preverbal and postverbal subjects is affected by changes in the syntax-information ...
Sam Wolfe
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The Effect of Silence and Distance: Evidence from Recomplementation in US Heritage Spanish
Languages, 2020 The present study investigates the architecture of heritage language grammars, as well as divergence from the baseline, by offering novel data. Recomplementation is defined as a left-dislocated phrase sandwiched between a primary (C1) and an optional ...
Joshua Frank
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Residual Verb Second in French and Romance
Isogloss, 2022 This article revisits the classic definition of a Residual Verb Second language in light of evidence from the history of French, which is supplemented with synchronic evidence from the Romance languages.
Sam Wolfe
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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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Grammatical and Lexical Dialectal Variation in Spanish: The Case of deísmo
Languages, 2023 Deísmo is a non-standard dialectal phenomenon consisting of the insertion of a non-required preposition de ‘of’ before a non-finite clause: Me apetece (de) salir ‘I want to go out’.
Edita Gutiérrez-Rodríguez +1 more
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Argument inheritance and left periphery in Hungarian infinitival constructions [PDF]
, 2013 Hungarian infinitival constructions have both mono-clausal and bi-clausal properties at the same time. The arguments of the infinitive behave the same way as the arguments of the finite verb do, but the non-finite verb has its own left periphery.
Szécsényi, Tibor
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