Main Clause Phenomena

New Horizons

Editors

Lobke Aelbrecht

| Ghent University

Liliane Haegeman

| Ghent University

Rachel Nye

| Ghent University

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Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages, with a particular focus on particles and agreement markers, complementizers and verb second, and the licensing of MCP in different types of clauses. Besides enriching the empirical domain, this volume also engages with the theoretical question of how best to capture the distribution of MCP and, in particular, to what extent they are embeddable and why. The diverse patterns and analyses presented challenge the idea that MCP constitute a homogeneous class. Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons is of interest not just to scholars specializing in the study of MCP, but to all linguists interested in the syntax and/or semantics of the clause.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 190] 2012. vi, 433 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.190

Table of Contents


Main Clause Phenomena and the privilege of the root Lobke Aelbrecht, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye	1–20
PART I. Explaining Main Clause Phenomena: The bigger picture
Augmented structure preservation and the Tensed S Constraint Joseph E. Emonds	21–46
Root transformations & quantificational structure Richard K. Larson and Miyuki Sawada	47–78
Agreements that occur mainly in the main clause Shigeru Miyagawa	79–112
The syntax of MCP: Deriving the truncation account Liliane Haegeman	113–134
Towards an interface definition of root phenomena* Cécile De Cat	135–158
Explaining matrix/subordinate domain discrepancies David W. Lightfoot	159–176
Parenthetical main clauses – or not?: On appositives and quasi-relatives Mark de Vries	177–202
PART II. The Phenomena
Topic particle stranding and the structure of CP Norio Nasu	203–228
Splitting up force: Evidence from discourse particles Marco Coniglio and Iulia Zegrean	229–256
The syntactic position of Polish by and Main Clause Phenomena Barbara Tomaszewicz	257–278

A main clause complementizer Virginia Hill	279–296
The status of complementizers in the left periphery Maria Rita Manzini	297–318
Minimality and embedded V2 in Scandinavian Irene Franco	319–344
Against a uniform treatment of second position effects as force markers Krzysztof Migdalski	345–364

The syntax-discourse interface in adverbial clauses Yoshio Endo	365–384
Subjunctive mood, epistemic modality and Main Clause Phenomena in the analysis of adverbial clauses Vesselina Laskova	385–404
On two types of adverbial clauses allowing root-phenomena Werner Frey	405–430
Index	431–434

“The papers collected in “Main clause phenomena: New horizons” map out new ways in the research on Main Clause Phenomena. I believe that this volume will become an important reference on the matter.”

Francesc González i Planas, Universitat de Girona, on Linguist List 24.1030 (2013)

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Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

Generative linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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