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left peripheries

left peripheries is the plural of left periphery.

Meaning of left periphery

Noun

left periphery (plural left peripheries)

  1. The part of a syntactic tree above the inflectional phrase(s) (expressing tense, aspect, and/or mood), where topic, focus, illocutionary force, etc. are expressed.
    • Four kinds of elements typically occurring in the left periphery will be taken into account: interrogative and relative pronouns, topics and focalized elements.1997, Luigi Rizzi, “The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery”, in Liliane Haegeman, editor, Elements of Grammar: Handbook in Generative Syntax, Dordrecht: Springer, →ISBN, page 281

Questions about left peripheries

What is left peripheries the plural of?
Left peripheries is the plural of left periphery.

Words near left peripheries in the dictionary

  1. left one's stamp
  2. left out
  3. left outer join
  4. left outer joins
  5. left over
  6. left peripheries
  7. left periphery
  8. left recursion
  9. left shift
  10. left shifted
  11. left shifting

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