The Right Periphery in Colloquial Hebrew: Modality and Language Contact Driven Effects

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 132-149
Author(s):  
Yael Ziv
Keyword(s):  
Functional Properties ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Left Periphery ◽  
Late Emergence ◽  
Structural And Functional Properties ◽  
Modern Hebrew ◽  
Discourse Functions ◽  
The Right

The article discusses structural and functional properties of non-canonical constituents in the right periphery in Modern Hebrew, by comparison with their left periphery correlates. It is argued that the left periphery constructions are evident in both written and spoken modalities and that the right periphery constructions characterize the spoken modality. The discourse functions of both constructions are shown to follow from their respective modality constraints. It is suggested that the late emergence of the right periphery structures in Modern Hebrew might be due to their existence in the languages with which Hebrew was in contact.

scholarly journals Configuring topic in the left periphery: a case of Chicheŵa split NPs

2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-373
Author(s):  
Sam A. Mchombo ◽  
Yukiko Morimoto
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
The Other ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Left Periphery ◽  
East Central ◽  
Bantu Language ◽  
Discourse Functions ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Syntactic Properties

Chicheŵa, a Bantu language of East Central Africa, displays mixed properties of configurationality such as the existence of VP, on the one hand, and discontinuous constituents (DCs), on the other. In the present work we examine the discourse and syntactic properties of DCs, and show that DCs in Chicheŵa arise naturally from the discourse-configurational nature of the language. We argue that the fronted DCs in Chicheŵa are contrastive topics that appear in a leftdislocated external topic position, with the remnant part of the split NP in the right-dislocated topic position. Once the precise discourse functions of DCs are properly integrated into the syntactic analysis, all the facts and restrictions observed in Chicheŵa DCs can be explained in a straightforward fashion.  

scholarly journals The History of *=a

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-568
Author(s):  
Don Daniels ◽  
Joseph Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Functional Properties ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Contact Areas ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

This paper discusses the historical borrowing of an enclitic across unrelated Papuan languages spoken along the lower Sogeram River in the Middle Ramu region of present-day Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. The enclitic *=a, which attached to the right edge of a prosodic unit, was borrowed from the Ramu family into the ancestor of three modern Sogeram languages. Both morphological and prosodic substance were borrowed, as was the dual functionality of the enclitic – as a pragmatic marker in independent utterances and a linking device on dependent domains. We discuss the clitic’s formal and functional properties as evidence for its contact-induced origin and subsequent historical development in western Sogeram, as well as the implications of these developments for our understanding of morphological and pragmatic borrowing. The complexities of this borrowing event highlight the potential for theories of language contact to benefit from collaborative research on previously unstudied contact areas.

Structural and functional properties of Escherichia coli-derived nucleoplasmin A comparative study of recombinant and natural proteins

2001 ◽  
Vol 268 (6) ◽  
pp. 1739-1748
Author(s):  
Aitor Hierro ◽  
Jesus M. Arizmendi ◽  
Javier De Las Rivas ◽  
M. Angeles Urbaneja ◽  
Adelina Prado ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Functional Properties ◽  
Structural And Functional Properties

Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Left Periphery ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Clause Structure ◽  
Verb Second ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Right ◽  
Theoretical Analyses

Over roughly the last decade, there has been a notable rise in new research on historical German syntax in a generative perspective. This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of this thriving new line of research by leading scholars in the field, combining it with new insights into the syntax of historical German. It is the first comprehensive and concise generative historical syntax of German covering numerous central aspects of clause structure and word order, tracing them throughout various historical stages. Each chapter combines a solid empirical basis and valid descriptive generalizations with reference also to the more traditional topological model of the German clause with a detailed discussion of theoretical analyses couched in the generative framework. The volume is divided into three parts according to the main parts of the clause: the left periphery dealing with verbal placement and the filling of the prefield (verb second, verb first, verb third orders) as well as adverbial connectives; the middle field including discussion of pronominal syntax, order of full NPs and the history of negation; and the right periphery with chapters on basic word order (OV/VO), prosodic and information-structural factors, and the verbal complex including the development of periphrastic verb forms and the phenomena of IPP (infinitivus pro participio) and ACI (accusativus cum infinitivo). This book thus provides a convenient overview of current research on the major issues concerning historical German clause structure both for scholars interested in more traditional description and for those interested in formal accounts of diachronic syntax.

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