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Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 8

By Liliane Haegeman

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2012
ISBN
0199858764, 9780199858767
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1954611 bytes)
Pages
336\333
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-04-14 14:50:37

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.

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