Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

left periphery

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English

Syllables: left- pe-riph-ery
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"Four kinds of elements typically occurring in the left periphery will be taken into account: interrogative and relative pronouns, topics and focalized elements."
"The polar-question particle sheds useful light on the syntax of the BH [Biblical Hebrew] left periphery. [...] With an overt Force head and the obligatory movement of the finite verb to the Topic head, the structure of the left periphery becomes more visible."

Inflected Forms

left peripheries (plural)

Questions

What does left periphery mean?: 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.

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