Structures, strategies and beyond : studies in honour of Adriana Belletti

This paper provides an analysis of the left periphery of relative clauses in the Cimbrian variety of Luserna and explores which of the two complementizer systems Cimbrian makes use of in restrictive and appositive relative clauses. Furthermore, the sentential particle da (lit. 'there'), wh...

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Main Authors Di Domenico, Elisa, Hamann, Cornelia, Matteini, Simona
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing 2015
John Benjamins Publishing Company
John Benjamins
Edition1
SeriesLinguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
Subjects
Belletti, Adriana
Generative linguistics
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Language acquisition
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
Structural linguistics
Syntax
Theoretical linguistics
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Summary:This paper provides an analysis of the left periphery of relative clauses in the Cimbrian variety of Luserna and explores which of the two complementizer systems Cimbrian makes use of in restrictive and appositive relative clauses. Furthermore, the sentential particle da (lit. 'there'), which according to Bidese et al. (2012) is obligatory in restrictive relative clauses with a full DP subject, is shown to have a distribution and function different from its counterparts in Bavarian and Hessian. We argue that the Cimbrian da is neither a locative (as the form might suggest) nor a subject expletive located in SpecT similar to English 'there' (as suggested by Bayer & Suchsland 1997 for Bavarian), but the specifier of a projection located in the Wackernagel space marking the Ground context with respect to the head noun individuated by the relative clause.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:902725706X
9789027257062