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Mapping the Left Periphery: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 5

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0199740372, 9780199740376
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1396379 bytes)
Pages
352\348
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-09-13 20:23:28

Description

Mapping the Left Periphery, the fifth volume in "The Cartography of Syntactic Structures," is entirely devoted to the functional articulation of the so-called complementizer system, the highest part of sentence structure. The papers collected here identify, on the basis of substantial empirical evidence, new atoms of functional structure, which encode specific features that are typically expressed in the left periphery. The volume also submits the richly articulated CP structure to further crosslinguistic checking. The research presented here has led to the identification of new, important restrictions in the relative sequence of elements appearing in the left periphery.With contributions from African languages, Chinese, Hungarian, Romance languages, and Italian dialects, Mapping the Left Periphery will be of interest to syntacticians working on comparative syntax, and more specifically on Romance grammar.

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