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

by Beninca, Paola; Munaro, Nicola

• ISBN13: 9780199740376
• ISBN10: 0199740372
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Paola Beninca is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Padua.
Nicola Munaro is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
The Projections in CP
Assertive Bien in Spanish and the Left Periphery	p. 19
On the Syntax of Topic and Focus in Chinese	p. 63
What's a Wh-Word Got to Do with It?	p. 91
Toward a Hierarchy of Clause Types	p. 125
The Structure of the Topic Field in Hungarian	p. 163
At the Borders of CP
Sentential Particles and Remnant Movement	p. 201
Matching Moods: Mood Concord between CP and IP in Salentino and Southern Calabrian Subjunctive Complements	p. 228
Subject Licensing in CP: The Neapolitan Double-Subject Construction	p. 257
Evidential Mood, Restructuring, and the Distribution of Functional Sembrare	p. 297
Person Index	p. 327
Language Index	p. 333
Subject Index	p. 335
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