Mapping the Left Periphery The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 5 [Paperback]

Mapping the Left Periphery, the fifth volume in The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, is entirely devoted to the functional articulation of the so-called complementizer system, the highest part of sentence structure. The papers collected here identify, on the basis of substantial empirical evidence, new atoms of functional structure, which encode specific features that are typically expressed in the left periphery. The volume also submits the richly articulated CP structure to further crosslinguistic checking. The research presented here has led to the identification of new, important restrictions in the relative sequence of elements appearing in the left periphery.

With contributions from African languages, Chinese, Hungarian, Romance languages, and Italian dialects,Mapping the Left Peripherywill be of interest to syntacticians working on comparative syntax, and more specifically on Romance grammar.

Introduction,Paola Beninca and Nicola Munaro
Section One: The projections in CP
Assertive bien in Spanish and the left periphery,M. Lluisa Hernanz
On the Syntax of Topic and Focus in Chinese,Linda Badan and Francesca Del Gobbo
What's a wh-word got to do with it?,Enoch O. Aboh and Roland Pfau
Towards a hierarchy of clause types,Nicola Munaro
The structure of the topic field in Hungarian,Aniko Liptak
Section Two: At the borders of CP
Sentential Particles and Remnant Movement,Cecilia Poletto and Raffaella Zanuttini
Matching moods -- Mood concord between CP and IP in Salentino and Southern Calabrian subjunctive complements,Federico Damonte
Subject Licensing in CP: The Neapolitan Double-Subject Construction,Adam Ledgeway
Evidential Mood, restructuring, and the distribution of functional sembrare,Liliane Haegeman

Paola Benincais Professor of Linguistics at the Uls