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 …

This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to
the Romance languages. The emerging language underwent changes in three fundamental …

This paper focuses on verb based particles of direct address in West Flemish and
Romanian. The purpose is to see to what extent the interpretation of these particles can be …

This paper focuses on the West Flemish discourse markers located at the edge of the
clause. After a brief survey of the distribution of discourse markers in WF, the paper …

Languages have several grammatical means of expressing the relation between speaker
and addressee, including speech-style particles, politeness pronouns, allocutive marking …

By analogy with the movement analysis of temporal clauses, some authors have proposed
that conditional clauses be derived by leftward operator movement (Bhatt and Pancheva …

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the
internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of colloquial English, revealing unusual and …

This paper explores the syntactic analysis of emphatic polarity particles (EPPA) in Spanish
and Catalan and shows that these elements fall under a more complex paradigm than …

This paper reviews new data supporting the inclusion of a Speech Act Phrase in the left
periphery. Illocutionary and evidential adverbs in English shift orientation from speakers in …

In this paper, we propose that there is a speech-act structure in the nominal spine, just as
there is in the clausal spine. Its function is to encode what we do when we utter a nominal …