The paper investigates the interface legibility and processability of minimal syntactic elements that play an important role in the interpretation and typing of the associated clause. It is argued that elements like interjections, shorts answers and sentential particles are endowed with an edge-feature that associates them with a clause. The paper discusses the syntactic conditions under which the associated clause can be left unpronounced and proposes a more fine-grained mapping of the high part of the split left periphery of the clause. This exercise allows us to better understand clausal typing processes and the pragmatic features that can be encoded in syntactic structure.
2015. Strong modality and truth disposability in syntactic subordination: What is the locus of the phase edge validating modal adverbials?. Studia Linguistica 69:2 ► pp. 119 ff.
Abraham, Werner
2020. Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics,
2020. The Syntax and Semantics of Cantonese Particles in the Left Periphery. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 41:2 ► pp. 109 ff.
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2022. List of Abbreviations. In The Grammar of the Utterance, ► pp. xi ff.
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2022. Copyright Page. In The Grammar of the Utterance, ► pp. iv ff.
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2022. General Preface. In The Grammar of the Utterance, ► pp. vii ff.
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