The Left Periphery
The interaction of syntax, pragmatics and prosody in Czech
| H5, San Francisco
This study of the interaction of syntax, pragmatics, and prosody in left peripheral positions focuses on two left dislocation constructions in Czech, Hanging Topic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation. The structure of the left periphery is delineated through a thorough description and analysis of these constructions with respect to their syntactic behavior, discourse function and prosody. Following recent work on the Syntax-Phonology interface, prosody in these constructions is shown to interact in interesting ways with the narrow syntax. Unexpected patterns of left-edge resumption are explained through the role of the PF component of the grammar.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 129] 2008. xi, 143 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
|
Acknowledgements
|
xi
|
|
Chapter 1. Introduction
|
1–5
|
|
Chapter 2. The syntax of the left periphery
|
7–38
|
|
Chapter 3. The syntax of left dislocation
|
39–66
|
|
Chapter 4. The discourse functions of left dislocation
|
67–97
|
|
Chapter 5. The syntax of resumption
|
99–128
|
|
Chapter 6. Conclusion
|
129–131
|
|
References
|
133–139
|
|
Index
|
141–143
|
“Sturgeon's clear and comprehensive study of the left dislocation in Czech will be a valuable resource for Slavic linguists interested in studying similar phenomena in other Slavic languages.”
Olena Tsurska, Arizona State University, on Linguist List 20.2583, 2009
Cited by
Cited by 7 other publications
Alexiadou, Artemis
2017.
In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition,
► pp. 1 ff. 
Fernández‐Sánchez, Javier & Dennis Ott
2020. Dislocations.
Language and Linguistics Compass 14:9
Kučerová, Ivona
2014. The Syntax of Null Subjects.
Syntax 17:2 ► pp. 132 ff.
Ott, Dennis
2015. Connectivity in left-dislocation and the composition of the left periphery.
Linguistic Variation 15:2 ► pp. 225 ff.
Polinsky, Maria & Eric Potsdam
2014.
In Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 244],
► pp. 109 ff.
POLINSKY, MARIA & ERIC POTSDAM
2014. Left edge topics in Russian and the processing of anaphoric dependencies.
Journal of Linguistics 50:3 ► pp. 627 ff.
Wolfe, Sam
2019. Redefining the typology of V2 languages.
Linguistic Variation 19:1 ► pp. 16 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 12 september 2021. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
Subjects & Metadata
Linguistics
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General