Latin Embedded Clauses : the left periphery.
This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with formal theoretical analysis. The empirical focus is word order in embedded clauses, with special attention to clauses in which one or more constituents...
| Основен автор: | Danckaert, Lieven. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Серия: |
Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ;
v. 184 |
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Latin Embedded Clauses : The left periphery. |
Съдържание:
- Latin Embedded Clauses; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. The phenomenon of 'Left Edge Fronting'; 1.1 The core data; 1.2 Earlier accounts of Latin LEF; 1.3 Two types of LEF; 1.4 LEF in Latin adverbial clauses: A corpus survey; 2. Word order in Latin; 2.1 'Free but not arbitrary': On the flexibility of Latin word order; 2.2 Restrictions on word order permutations; 3. Linear order vs. hierarchical structure; 3.1 A case study: Object positions in Latin; 3.2 Linear order in syntax as a derived notion.
- 3.3 Conclusion4. Latin as a discourse-configurational language; 4.1 Word order and information structure; 4.2 Latin as a discourse configurational language; 4.3 Round-up; 5. Addendum: Studying word order variation: A crash course in generative syntax; 5.1 Some preliminaries; 5.2 Structure of the clause; 5.3 Movement; 5.4 Conclusion; Chapter 2. The internal syntax of Adverbial Clauses (ACs); 1. Adverbial clauses: The landscape; 1.1 Clausal adjuncts; 1.2 External syntax of ACs; 1.3 Latin ACs: Some key properties; 2. The operator derivation of ACs; 2.1 Temporal ACs as free relatives.
- 2.2 Conditionals2.3 Possible extensions; 3. Main Clause Phenomena; 3.1 What are Main Clause Phenomena?; 3.2 Explaining the ban on embedded MCP; 4. Two types of ACs; 4.1 Central vs. peripheral ACs; 4.2 External syntax; 4.3 MCP in peripheral ACs; 4.4 Peripheral ACs in Latin; 5. The distribution of the particle quidem in ACs; 5.1 Syntactic distribution of quidem; 5.2 On the interpretation of quidem; 5.3 quidem as a polarity marker; 5.4 Accounting for the MCP-like distribution of quidem; 6. Conclusion; Chapter 3. The left periphery of embedded clauses.
- 1. The position of subordinating conjunctions with respect to topics and foci1.1 Subordinators in ForceP; 1.2 Subordinators lower than ForceP; 2. Clause typing and the role of ForceP; 2.1 On the position of subordinating conjunctions in the C-system; 2.2 The left periphery of Latin ACs; 2.3 LEF in Latin: A closer look at the data; 3. Corpus study of LEF in Latin ACs; 3.1 Facts and figures; 3.2 A first discussion of the figures; 4. A preview of the upcoming analyses; Chapter 4. The syntax of island pied-piping; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Presentation of the data; 1.2 Cross-linguistic parallels.
- 1.3 Islands vs. non-islands2. Clausal pied-piping; 2.1 Introduction: On the phenomenon of pied-piping9; 2.2 Clausal/island pied-piping cross-linguistically; 2.3 The syntax of clausal pied-piping; 2.4 Island pied-piping in a wh-in-situ language; 2.5 Two alternative analyses and their problems; 2.6 Discussion: Internal wh-movement and successive cyclicity; 3. A relative/interrogative asymmetry; 3.1 The behaviour of Latin interrogative wh-; 3.2 Asymmetries between relative and interrogative wh-; 3.3 The feature make-up of wh-phrases; 3.4 The derivation of Latin relative Verschrankung.