Adverbial clauses, main clause phenomena, and the composition of the left periphery
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Adverbial clauses, main clause phenomena, and the composition of the left periphery
（Oxford studies in comparative syntax / Richard Kayne, general editor, . The cartography of syntactic structures ; v. 8）
Oxford University Press, c2012
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- : hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-308) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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
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