Research Catalog

Title

Adverbial clauses, main clause phenomena, and composition of the left periphery / Liliane Haegeman.

Author

Haegeman, Liliane M. V.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Description

xvi, 316 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This title uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compares it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages.

Series Statement

• Cartography of syntactic structures ; v. 8
• Oxford studies in comparative syntax

Uniform Title

• University press scholarship online.
• Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
• Cartography of syntactic structures ; v. 8.

Subject

• Causative (Linguistics)
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Transitivity
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Adverbials
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Background: the articulated structure of the left periphery -- 2. Arguments and adjuncts on the left periphery -- 3. Intervention effects and the left periphery -- 4. Main clause phenomena and adverbial clauses -- 5. An intervention account -- 6. Extending the analysis: MCP in that clauses

ISBN

• 9780199858767 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0199858764 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780199858774 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0199858772 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011051042

OCLC

• 769232486
• SCSB-12873774

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library