Main clause phenomena : new horizons

Peripheral adverbial clauses show many differences from central adverbial clauses, one being that they allow certain root-phenomena, whereas central adverbial clauses do not allow any. A third class of adverbial clauses has to be distinguished, which in German contains continuative w-relatives and f...

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Main Authors Aelbrecht, Lobke, Haegeman, Liliane M. V., Nye, Rachel
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam John Benjamins 2012
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Edition1
SeriesLinguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
Subjects
Causative (Linguistics)
Generative grammar
Generative linguistics
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general > Transitivity
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
Syntax
Theoretical linguistics
Transitivity
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ISBN9789027255730
9027255733
DOI10.1075/la.190

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Summary:Peripheral adverbial clauses show many differences from central adverbial clauses, one being that they allow certain root-phenomena, whereas central adverbial clauses do not allow any. A third class of adverbial clauses has to be distinguished, which in German contains continuative w-relatives and free dass-clauses. These allow more root-phenomena than the peripherals and show other signs of greater independence. The paper argues that central and peripheral adverbial clauses are differently licensed syntactically, the former by the host's verbal projection, the latter by Force in the host's periphery. Moreover, adverbials of the third class are not syntactically licensed at all; they are orphans, being only semantically linked to their associated clause by a specific discourse relation.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9789027255730
9027255733
DOI:10.1075/la.190