The syntax of functional left peripheries Clause typing in West Germanic and beyond

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3985540792
• ISBN: zenodo.8205597
• Thông tin xuất bản: Language Science Press, 2023
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 460209
• Chủ đề: 1. Language Arts & Disciplines; 2. Linguistics; 3. linguistics

Tóm tắt

This book provides a novel analysis for the syntax of the clausal left periphery, focusing on various finite clause types and especially on embedded clauses. It investigates how the appearance of multiple projections interacts with economy principles and with the need for marking syntactic information overtly. In particular, the proposed account shows that a flexible approach assuming only a minimal number of projections is altogether favourable to cartographic approaches. The main focus of the book is on West Germanic, in particular on English and German, yet other Germanic and non-Germanic languages are also discussed for comparative purposes.