The Left Periphery: The Interaction of Syntax, Pragmatics and Prosody in Czech

The Left Periphery......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Dedication page......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1. Left dislocation in Czech......Page 14
2. Previous research on Czech......Page 16
3. Organization......Page 17
1. Introduction......Page 20
2. Clause structural assumptions......Page 21
3. Identifying the clause-initial position: Clitics in I0......Page 23
4.1 VP adverbs......Page 24
4.2 VP ellipsis......Page 27
5.1 Discourse function and [Spec, IP]......Page 29
5.2 V0-to-I0 raising: Satisfying the EPP......Page 33
6.1 Wh-movement......Page 36
6.3 Contrastive topicalization......Page 40
6.3.1 Weak Crossover......Page 43
6.3.2 Operator-variable contrastive topicalization......Page 45
6.3.3 Syntactic analysis of CT constructions......Page 46
7. Another look at multiple Wh-questions......Page 47
7.1 Multiple pre-clitic XP's......Page 48
8. Conclusion......Page 50
1. Overview of left dislocation in Czech......Page 52
2. Grohmann 2003 and left dislocation in German......Page 54
3. Syntactic approach to left dislocation in Czech......Page 56
4. Evidence for a movement account of CLD......Page 57
4.1 Conditions A and C......Page 58
4.2 Quantifier binding......Page 59
5.1 Reconstruction and HTLD I......Page 60
5.2 Reconstruction and HTLD II......Page 62
6. Gender and resumption......Page 63
7. Phrasal categories......Page 66
8.1 Long distance dependencies......Page 69
8.2 Island sensitivity......Page 71
9.3 The syntax of HTLD......Page 77
9.2 Embedded contexts......Page 75
9.1 The left periphery......Page 73
10. Conclusion......Page 79
1. Introduction......Page 80
2. Contrastive topic......Page 81
2.1 Prince 1981, 1997......Page 83
2.2 Hajičova and Sgall 2004......Page 84
2.3 Büring 2003......Page 86
2.3.1 Discourse trees......Page 87
2.3.2 CT congruence......Page 88
2.3.3 Focus on clausal polarity......Page 91
2.3.4 Conventional meanings vs conversational implicature......Page 92
3.1 Overview of the discourse function of CLD......Page 94
3.2 Conversational implicature vs. conventional meaning......Page 99
4. The discourse function of HTLD......Page 101
4.1 Overview of the requirements of "topic promotion"......Page 103
4.2 The preceding context......Page 104
4.3 Perseveration in the discourse......Page 106
4.4 Considering HTLD II......Page 108
5. Conclusion......Page 109
2. CLD: Locating the CT interpretation in [Spec, IP]......Page 112
2.1 Prosodic realization of contrastive topic......Page 113
2.2 Comparing CLD and HTLD II......Page 117
2.3 Interpretation of [Spec, TopP]......Page 118
3. The syntax of CLD......Page 120
4. Resumption at the syntax-phonology interface......Page 122
4.1 V(P) fronting in Hebrew......Page 123
4.2.1 Pronouncing the top copy......Page 126
4.2.2 Pronouncing the resumptive......Page 127
5.1 Resumption as partial spell out of movement copies......Page 129
5.2 Why a demonstrative pronoun?......Page 131
6. Resuming other categories......Page 133
6.1 Properties and propositions......Page 134
6.2 Manner, place and time adverbials......Page 135
6.3 Prepositional phrases......Page 137
7. Previous accounts of resumptive spell out......Page 138
8. Conclusion......Page 140
2. The syntax and pragmatics of left dislocation in Czech......Page 142
2.2 The pragmatics of left dislocation......Page 143
4. Conclusion......Page 144
References......Page 146
Index......Page 154
The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today......Page 158