The syntax of functional left peripheries

Clause typing in West Germanic and beyond

von Julia Bacskai-Atkari

358 Seiten, Buch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Open Germanic Linguistics
• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik Grammatik, Syntax und Morphologie
• ISBN: 9783985540792
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.10.2023
• Größe: 24.5 x 18 cm
• Verlag: Language Science Press