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1 PERIPHERIES

2 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory VOLUME 59 Managing Editors Marcel den Dikken, City University of New York Liliane Haegeman, University of Lille Joan Maling, Brandeis University Editorial Board Guglielmo Cinque, University of Venice Carol Georgopoulos, University of Utah Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hilda Koopman, University of California, Los Angeles Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut at Storrs Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

3 PERIPHERIES Syntactic Edges and their Effects Edited by DAVID ADGER Queen Mary, University of London, U.K. CÉCILE DE CAT University of York, U.K. and GEORGE TSOULAS University of York, U.K. KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW

4 ebook ISBN: Print ISBN: Kluwer Academic Publishers New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow Print 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht All rights reserved No part of this ebook may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the Publisher Created in the United States of America Visit Kluwer Online at: and Kluwer's ebookstore at:

5 Contents Contributing Authors Acknowledgments 1 Core Questions about the Edge 1 David Adger & Cécile De Cat 2 On the Left and on the Right 19 Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, Masayuki Otsuka & David Swinburne 3 The Left Periphery and Cyclic Spellout: The Case of Hungarian 49 Balazs Surányi 4 Unspecified Categories as the Key to Root Constructions 75 Joseph Emonds 5 Peripheral Effects without Peripheral Syntax: The left Periphery in Korean Kook-Hee Gill & George Tsoulas 6 Japanese Scrambling in a Comparative Perspective 143 Mamoru Saito 7 Left or Right? A View from the Kwa Periphery 165 Enoch Oladé Aboh 8 Cross-Linguistic Word OrderVariation at the Left Periphery:The Case of Object FirstMain Clauses Christer Platzack 9 DP-Periphery and Clausal Periphery: Possessor Doubling in West Flemish 211 Liliane Haegeman v vii xi

6 vi PERIPHERIES 10 SubMove: Towards a Unified Account of Scrambling and D-Linking 241 Cedric Boeckx & Kleanthes K. Grohmann 11 On the Edge 259 Peter Svenonius 12 Clausal Edges and their Effects on Scope 289 Kyle Johnson 13 Edge Coordinations: Focus and Conjunction Reduction 313 Valentina Bianchi & Roberto Zamparelli 14 Broad Subjects and Clitic Left Dislocation 329 Theodora Alexopoulou, Edit Doron & Caroline Heycock 15 Acquiring the Left Periphery of the Modern Greek DP 359 Theodore Marinis 16 Early Peripheries in the Absence of C 383 Bernadette Plunkett Bibliography 407 Index 437

7 Contributing Authors Enoch Oladé Aboh Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) David Adger Queen Mary, University of London (UK) Theodora Alexopoulou Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics University of Edinburgh (UK) Valentina Bianchi Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione Università di Siena (Italy) vale Cedric Boeckx Harvard University (US) Ronnie Cann Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics University of Edinburgh (UK) vii

8 viii PERIPHERIES Cécile De Cat Department of Language & Linguistic Science University of York (UK) Edit Doron Department of English The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) Joseph Emonds Graduate School Kobe Shoin University (Japan) and University of Durham (UK) Kook-Hee Gill Department of Language & Linguistic Science University of York (UK) Kleanthes Grohmann Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures University of Cyprus Liliane Haegeman UFR Angellier, UMR 8528 Silex du CNRS Université Charles de Gaulle LILLE III (France) Caroline Heycock Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics University of Edinburgh (UK)

9 Contributing Authors ix Kyle Johnson University of Massachusetts at Amherst (US) Ruth Kempson Philosophy Department Kings College London (UK) Theodore Marinis CentreforDevelopmental LanguageDisorders andcognitiveneuroscience University College London (UK) Lutz Marten Africa Department School of Oriental and African Studies, London (UK) Masayuki Otsuka Philosophy Department Kings College London (UK) Christer Platzack Institutionen för nordiska språk, Lund University (Sweden) Bernadette Plunkett Department of Language & Linguistic Science University of York (UK) Mamoru Saito Nanzan University (Japan)

10 x PERIPHERIES Balasz Surányi Eötvös University Budapest (Hungary) Peter Svenonius University of Tromsø (Norway) David Swinburne Tel Aviv University (Israel) George Tsoulas Department of Language & Linguistic Science University of York (UK) Roberto Zamparelli Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione e della Comunicazione Università di Bergamo (Italy) roberto@unibg.it

11 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi Acknowledgments We wish to acknowledge the financial support of the British Academy (grant #31161) and the Linguistics Association of Great Britain which helped bring to life the Peripheral Positions conference (York, September 2000). This constituted the first step toward the realisation of the present volume. Every stage of the conference and this volume was extensively reviewed. We would especially like to thank three anonymous referees for comments on each chapter of the book, as well as the volume as a whole. Thanks also to all the contributors for their patience and commitment during the process of refereeing and editing. The second editor gratefully acknowledges support from the Economic and Social Research Council (grant #041R00433).

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