Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and the Composition of the Left Periphery

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-985876-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages. Liliane Haegeman argues that the dissimilar surface characteristics of these languages (primarily English and Romance, but also Gungbe, Hungarian, Hebrew, Dutch, and others) can be explained by universal constraints, and that the same structures apply across the languages. Haegeman focuses on main clause transformations--movement operations that can only take place in main clauses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haegeman, Liliane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Chapter 1: Background: the articulated structure of the left periphery

- Chapter 2: Arguments and adjuncts on the left periphery

- Chapter 3: Intervention effects and the left periphery

- Chapter 4: Main Clause Phenomena and adverbial clauses

- Chapter 5: An intervention account

- Chapter 6: Extending the analysis: MCP in that-clauses

- Notes

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Liliane Haegeman is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ghent.