Introducing the Special Issue: Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars

Ji Shim,Tabea Ihsane,M Parafita Couto

doi:10.3390/languages2040028

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Abstract

To introduce this Special Issue entitled Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars, we begin by explaining what originally motivated this Special Issue [...]

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The left periphery of a nominal phrase has been investigated to a great extent [7,8,9], based on the proposal that clauses and nominal phrases have parallel structures ([10] and in subsequent work)
Generative linguists have started to pay attention to the left periphery of bilingual grammars, especially in relation to diverse patterns of code-switching, which is the mixed use of two or more languages in conversation, and which is frequently observed in bilingual speech
Under the assumption that monolingual and bilingual grammars are subject to the same grammatical principles [11,12,13,14], several researchers have investigated the grammar of code-switching in various language pairs and showed that the left periphery of a particular functional category such as C, D, or v may be parameterized differently across languages and derive certain patterns of code-switching, The projected was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (#100012_146699/1), and the second Editor was the principal investigator of the project

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Introduction

Carmen Parafita Couto) of this Special Issue was an invited speaker.2 The workshop aimed to investigate the left periphery of complements, in particular the left periphery of the clause and the nominal phrase and its edge, such as C(omplementizers) and D(eterminer) and other top-most functional layers, where languages may be parametrized differently, leading to linguistic variation. The left periphery of the clause has been extensively investigated, confirming the hypothesis that the functional category C(omplementizer) and its morpho-syntactic properties may be parameterized differently across languages within research on monolingual grammar [3,4,5,6].

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