Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery uses
the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to …

Relative clauses play a hugely important role in analysing the structure of sentences. This
book provides the first evidence that a unified analysis of the different types of relative …

Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known
as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of …

Davis, EP, The semasiology of verbs of talking and saying in the High German dialects. Diss.
Chicago 1925. 51 S. Forest, JH de, On the use of Japanese verbs of sayings, speaking …

The Syntax of Relativization Page 1 The Syntax of Relativization Page 2 Published by LOT
phone: +31 30 253 6006 Trans 10 fax: +31 30 253 6000 3512 JK Utrecht e-mail: lot@let.uu.nl …

The authors examine the types of clauses used by people when they are speaking off the
cuff. They also analyze the devices speakers use when organizing larger chunks of …

In this paper, we show how incorporating into syntax the concept of structural
underspecification and the dynamics of its resolution enables us to characterise the …

Abstract Introduction Like Bierwisch 1980, Altmann 1987, Grewendorf and Zaefferer 1991,
Wechsler 1991, Brandt, Reis, Rosengren and Zimmermann 1992, Lohnstein 2000 …

In this paper, I discuss the relevance of the decomposition of CP for the syntax of adverbial
clauses. I will show that conjunctions introducing adverbial clauses, such as if, while and …

Within modern syntactic theory, focus on the importance of a fundamental distinction
between root and non-root clauses is primarily associated with Emonds (1970). In this work …