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1 online resource (viii, 476 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ; volume 200
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 200.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction by the editors -- Part I. Empirial Perspectives: Constraints on intra- and extraposition / Markus Bader, Jana Häussler and Tanja Schmid; Subclausal locality constraints on relative clause extraposition / Jan Strunk and Neal Snider; Constraints on relative clause extraposition in English: an experimental investigation / Heike Walker -- Part II. Minimalist Perspective: Rightward movement, EPP and specifiers: evidence from Uyghur and Khalkha / Balkız Öztürk; Neglected cases of rightward movement: when wh-phrases and negative quantifiers go to the right / Carlo Geraci and Carlo Cecchetto; Rightward movement from a different perspective / Cristiano Chesi; Cumulative rightward processes / Marlies Kluck and Mark de Vries -- Part III. Other Theoretical Perspectives: A dynamic perspective on left-right asymmetries: CLLD and Clitic doubling in Greek / Elena Gregoromichelaki; On the locality of complement clause and relative clause extraposition / Betrhold Crysmann -- Part IV. Prosodic Perspective: Extraposition of defocused and light PPs in English / Edward Göbbel; Prosodic constraints on extrapostion in German / Katharina Hartmann. |
| Summary |
This article contributes to a better understanding of the syntax-phonology interface. It offers a prosodic trigger for extraposition which accounts for the following asymmetry: While extraposition of subject, adjunct and attributive clauses is optional in German, object clauses must appear in the right periphery of the clause. It is argued that the constituents following an object clause in its preverbal base-position cannot be a parsed into phonological phrases. Such a configuration causes a defective prosodic clause structure. This deficiency is resolved by extraposition, which derives a str. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Complement.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Complement. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Webelhuth, Gert, editor.
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Sailer, Manfred, editor.
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Walker, Heike, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rightward movement in a comparative perspective. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013 9789027255839 (DLC) 2012044690 (OCoLC)818739533 |
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Print version: Webelhuth, Gert. Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©2013 9789027255839 |
| ISBN |
9789027290632 (electronic book) |
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9027290636 (electronic book) |
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129971174X (e-book) |
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9781299711747 (e-book) |
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9789027255839 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9027255830 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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