Language Use and Linguistic Structure

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OLOMOUC MODERN LANGUAGE SERIES (OMLS) publishes peer-reviewed proceedings from selected conferences on linguistics, literature, and translation studies held at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. AcknowledgementsThe editors are indebted to all those who have helped make this monograph possible. First and foremost, we would like to thank all the authors for both their enthusiastic participation in the conference and their cooperation in the editorial process. We would also like to express gratitude to our colleagues and students from the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University, Olomouc, for their efforts related to the organization of the OLINCO 2013 conference and the subsequent publishing activities. We greatly appreciate the assistance of Simon Gill, Markéta Gregorová, Eva Nováková, and Jeffrey Parrot, without whose tireless devotion to the editing work the monograph would never have come into existence. Apart from the support of the Department of English and American Studies, the Philosophical Faculty and Palacký University, all of which were indispensable, we have also benefited from the generous support of ESF grant CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0061 (Language Diversity and Communication), financed by the European Union and the Czech Republic. This grant was used to cover a substantial part of the financial costs of the conference in situ, as well as the demanding editing and publishing process.And finally we would like to express our immense gratitude to all the reviewers who devotedly participated in the process of accepting and reviewing the papers for the conference and later another round of the peer-reviewing process for the proceedings. Special thanks are also due to Professor Jürgen Weissenborn of Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, for the overall review of the proceedings. Joseph Emonds Markéta Janebová IntroductionThe articles in this volume are based on papers and posters presented at the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (OLINCO) at Palacký University in the Czech Republic in June 2013. This conference welcomed papers that combined analyses of language structure with generalizations about language use. The essays here represent, we think, the best of the conference contributions (together with those selected among them for a separate themed monograph entitled Nominal Structures: All in Complex DPs). All these papers have been doubly reviewed, with one reviewer always external to Palacký University, and revised on the basis of these reviews.The sections of this volume roughly represent the different sections for papers presented at OLINCO, but the groupings in the Table of Contents have been determined, in the final analysis, by their subject matter rather than by a priori "areas." Because the papers on noun phrase structure have been grouped in a separate volume, the grammatical essays appearing here focus on the verb phrase and clausal structure, and have then been divided according to which of these latter two domains figures more prominently in any given paper. Grammar of the Left Peripher...