Overview
Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 59)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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,
= the nature of the dependencies connecting peripheral elements to the syntactic core. Audience: Academics and graduate students interested in syntax and its interfaces with semantics and prosody, acquisition of syntax, cross-linguistic comparison.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Peripheries
Book Subtitle: Syntactic Edges and their Effects
Editors: David Adger, Cécile Cat, George Tsoulas
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-1910-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1908-1Published: 29 February 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1909-8Published: 13 September 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-1910-4Published: 14 January 2006
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 448
Topics: Grammar, Linguistics, general, Comparative Linguistics, Syntax