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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"left periphery"”.
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The left-periphery of the Romance dialects of Italy: Towards a parametric-based classification
… perspective, focusing exclusively on the left-peripheral domain within the split-CP framework. This research is inspired by the Parametric Comparison Method (PCM) and adopts some of its tools and principles, while developing a dedicated parametric system tailored to the CP. Specifically, a …
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The clause structure of Turaif Arabic
… adds to Rizzi's (1997) analysis of the left periphery of the clause. Although, I follow Rizzi's assumption of the kind of elements the left periphery of the clause can host, topics and foci, I slightly depart from his analysis with regard to the order these elements can be in. I show …
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You Heard the New Theory?: A Syntactic Analysis of Null Subjects and Null Auxiliaries in English
… only if they have also undergone movement to the left periphery. However, syntactic considerations alone cannot fully account for the distribution of null subjects and null auxiliaries. Semantic considerations (including information structure) and phonological considerations frequently play …
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The Syntax of Relative Clauses and Related Phenomena in Proto-Indo-European
… I provide a detailed reconstruction of the PIE left periphery. Because of the additional role of discourse-driven movement (Topicalisation and Focalisation) and clisis (“Wackernagel’s Law”) in the left periphery, my reconstruction has implications beyond relative clauses, shaping our …
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Clitic-doubled left dislocation in L2 Spanish: findings from learners' production data
… IH using experimental evidence of clitic-doubled left dislocation (CLLD), a syntax-discourse interface phenomenon, in adult learners of Spanish as a foreign language. CLLD implies moving the direct or indirect object to the left periphery of the sentence, and adding a resumptive clitic pronoun …
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A GENERAL THEORY OF CORRELATIVITY
… Vedic correlatives are base-generated in the left periphery of the host clause and display a range of headedness types, including internally headed, externally headed, double-headed, free, and split-headed variants. These findings contest the prevailing typology that assumes correlatives must …
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Non-Argumental Clitics in Spanish and Galician: A Case Study of the Distribution of Solidarity and Ethical Clitics
… needs to be bound by an operator in the in the left periphery, which is EvalP. The relationship that the<em> </em>SolCl establishes is with the Deixis Center, which is located on the spec positions in a projection in the left periphery. The EthCl, on the other hand, can select a referent in the …
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Tseltal clause structure
… or a head in the extended VP is attracted to the left periphery of the clause. It is argued that the movement to focus position is mediated by agreement relations, although in contrast to the preceding chapters, the agreement relations considered here are not long-distance, and in some cases are …
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Anatomy of an Attitude
… reports comes from a projection ContP in the left periphery of embedded clauses (cf. Kratzer 2006, Bogal-Allbritten 2016, a.o.), and clauses differ in whether they have ContP and thus displacement. I also argue for equality semantics of displacement (Moulton 2009, Elliott 2017): clausal …
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A quantitative and qualitative analysis of competing motivations interacting in the placement of finite relative clauses in Hindi
… can optionally occupy three positions: at the left edge of the main clause (left-peripheral or correlatives), at the right edge of the main clause (right-peripheral or extraposed), and immediately after the noun phrase it modifies (adnominal). This dissertation applies quantitative and …
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The syntax of comparative constructions : operators, ellipsis phenomena and functional left peripheries
Adopting a minimalist framework, the dissertation provides an analysis for the syntactic structure of comparatives, with special attention paid to the derivation of the subclause. The proposed account explains how the comparative subclause is connected to the matrix clause, how the subclause is …
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On the Development of Differential Object Marking in Romance
… a TopP functional head in a Giusti-style nominal left periphery (or, KP) (cf. Giusti 1992, 2002; Löbel 1994). Specifically, I argue that diatopic variation in the height of N- movement in Romance in synchrony and diachrony within the DP is responsible for significant diatopic and diachronic …