Mapping the Left Periphery

Paola Beninca is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Padua. Nicola Munaro is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice.

• INTRODUCTION; PAOLA BENINCA AND NICOLA MUNARO; ASSERTIVE BIEN IN SPANISH AND THE LEFT PERIPHERY; M. LLUISA HERNANZ; ON THE SYNTAX OF TOPIC AND FOCUS IN CHINESE; LINDA BADAN AND FRANCESCA DEL GOBBO; WHAT'S A WH-WORD GOT TO DO WITH IT?; ENOCH O. ABOH AND ROLAND PFAU; TOWARDS A HIERARCHY OF CLAUSE TYPES; NICOLA MUNARO; THE STRUCTURE OF THE TOPIC FIELD IN HUNGARIAN; ANIKO LIPTAK; SENTENTIAL PARTICLES AND REMNANT MOVEMENT; CECILIA POLETTO AND RAFFAELLA ZANUTTINI; MATCHING MOODS - MOOD CONCORD BETWEEN CP AND IP IN SALENTINO AND SOUTHERN CALABRIAN SUBJUNCTIVE COMPLEMENTS; FEDERICO DAMONTE; SUBJECT LICENSING IN CP: THE NEAPOLITAN DOUBLE-SUBJECT CONSTRUCTION; ADAM LEDGEWAY; EVIDENTIAL MOOD, RESTRUCTURING, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF FUNCTIONAL SEMBRARE; LILIANE HAEGEMAN

The book is a great source of useful data and interesting proposals, analysing a wide range of phenomena and making important contributions to the research in comparative syntax. It will prove helpful for all those who are interested in the fine-grained structure of the left periphery and, more generally, in cartographic syntax.