Overview

The syntactic periphery has become one of the most important areas of research in syntactic theory in recent years, due to the emergence of new research programmes initiated by Rizzi, Kayne and Chomsky. However research has concentrated on the empirical nature of clausal peripheries. The purpose of this volume is to explore the question of whether the notion of periphery has any real theoretical bite. An important consensus emerging from the volume is that the edges of certain syntactic expressions appear to be the locus of the connection between phrase structure, prosody, and information structure. This volume contains 16 papers by researchers in this area. The book: - contains an extensive introduction setting out the research questions addressed and setting the contributions in an overall theoretical context, has a distinct comparative slant, brings together work from a range of theoretical perspectives, while maintaining a unity of purpose, could serve as the basis for a graduate course on peripheral positions, contains papers addressing; - the question of the fine-grainedness of syntactic representations, the relevance of syntactic edges to locality and semantic interpretation

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Author:   David Adger ,  Cécile de Cat ,  George Tsoulas
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2004 ed.
Volume:   59
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.868kg
ISBN:  

9781402019081

ISBN 10:   1402019084
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   29 February 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Core Questions about the Edge.- On the Left and on the Right.- The Left Periphery and Cyclic Spellout: The Case of Hungarian.- Unspecified Categories as the Key to Root Constructions.- Peripheral Effects without Peripheral Syntax: The Left Periphery in Korean.- Japanese Scrambling in a Comparative Perspective.- Left or Right? A View from the Kwa Periphery.- Cross-Linguistic Word Order Variation at the Left Periphery: The Case of Object First Main Clauses.- DP-Periphery and Clausal Periphery: Possessor Doubling in West Flemish.- Submove: Towards a Unified Account of Scrambling and D-Linking.- On the Edge.- Clausal Edges and Their Effects on Scope.- Edge Coordinations: Focus and Conjunction Reduction.- Broad Subjects and Clitic Left Dislocation.- Acquiring the Left Periphery of the Modern Greek DP.- Early Peripheries in the Absence of C.

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From the reviews: <p> This book contains 15 papers presented at a conference on peripheral positions at the University of York in September 2000 a ] . This is a generally excellent volume, managing to fit a bumper number of papers inside its deceptively slim covers. a ] overall the standard of the papers is very high. The range of phenomena discussed is impressive as is the theoretical diversity within the papers. (Jonny Butler, The Linguist List, August, 2004)

From the reviews: This book contains 15 papers presented at a conference on peripheral positions at the University of York in September 2000 a ] . This is a generally excellent volume, managing to fit a bumper number of papers inside its deceptively slim covers. a ] overall the standard of the papers is very high. The range of phenomena discussed is impressive as is the theoretical diversity within the papers. (Jonny Butler, The Linguist List, August, 2004)

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