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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...

Although (almost) all sentences have subjects, not all sentences encode their subjects in the same way. Some languages overtly mark some subjects, but not others, depending on certain features of the subject argument or the sentence in which the subject figures. This phenomenon is known as Differential Subject Marking (DSM). Languages differ in which conditions govern DSM. Some languages differentiate their subjects on the basis of semantic features of the argument such as thematic role, volitionality, animacy, whereas others differentiate on the basis of clausal features such as...

Das Spannungsfeld von Explizitheit und Sprachokonomie kennzeichnet die Morphologie ebenso wie andere sprachliche Strukturebenen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Okonomie nicht nur auf der Ebene des Untersuchungsgegenstandes das Leitmotiv, sondern auch bei der Analyse, die nach redundanzfreien Reprasentationen der untersuchten Phanomene strebt. Grundthese ist, da sich die Phanomene nur unter Einbeziehung der verschiedenen Strukturebenen, also auch von Semantik, Syntax und Phonologie, angemessen erklaren lassen. Im Einzelnen werden die Kategorien Definitheit, Attribution und Numerus...

Unter Modalitat sind verschiedene Kategorien zusammengefasst: Modalverben, Modalpartikel, Vergewisserungsfragen. Die Gemeinsamkeit der grundmodalen und epistemischen sowie evidentialen Lesarten von Modalverben einerseits und Modalpartikeln andererseits ist das Thema dieses Bandes. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, welche Gewissheitsgrade fur den Horer diese Wortarten vermitteln, wieweit dabei Verhandlungsstrategien vom Sprecher gegenuber dem Horer eingesetzt werden und wieso solche Wortarten nicht in allen Sprachen in gleicher Weise lexikalisch oder grammatisch vertreten sind. Da Modalitat im...

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as...

The Glot International State-of-the-Article books constitute the ideal solution for every-one who wants to have a good idea of what the others are doing but does not have time to follow the developments in all other parts of the field on a day to day basis. All articles were previously published in Glot International and have been revised and updated, and special attention was given to the extensive bibliography, which constitutes an important part of each overview article.

Among the essays in the first volume are overview articles dealing with VP ellipsis (by Kyle...

The handbook provides an overview of the current status of research in this field. The second volume begins with a comprehensive description of grammatical phenomena as seen from dependency and valency viewpoints. This is followed by chapters on the application of dependency and valency concepts in computer-based language processing. The remaining chapters deal with contrastive linguistics, grammaticography, lexicography, historical linguistics and other areas of linguistic research in which dependency and valency play a significant role.

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

The book contains ten papers discussing issues of the relation between syntax and morphology from the perspective of morphologically rich languages including, among others, Indo-European languages, indigenous languages of the Americas, Turkish, and Hungarian. The overall question discussed in this book is to what extent morphological information shows up in syntactic structures and how this information is represented. The authors adopt different theoretical frameworks such as the Derivational Theory of Morphology, Distributed Optimality, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar,...

Time in Natural Language investigates the relationship between the syntactic and semantic representations of sentences within the domain of tense. Assuming that tenses are semantically composed of three distinct times, Thompson proposes that these times map onto the syntax in a regular fashion: each time is associated with a unique syntactic head. Adopting the Minimalist approach to syntactic theory, this approach makes possible insightful analyses of syntactic structures involving temporal dependency.

Thompson argues that, depending on their adjunction site, temporal...