The Syntax of Topic, Focus, and Contrast : An Interface-based Approach.
Title:
The Syntax of Topic, Focus, and Contrast : An Interface-based Approach.
Author:
Koster, Jan.
ISBN:
9781614511458
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (307 pages)
Series:
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; v.113
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
Contents:
Chapter 1. The Syntactic Expression of Information Structure -- Chapter 2. Towards a Unified Encoding of Contrast and Scope -- Chapter 3. Word Order Variation and Information Structure in Japanese and Korean -- Chapter 4. Encoding Focus and Contrast in Russian -- Chapter 5. Against FP Analyses of Clefts -- Chapter 6. Focus Movement Can be Destressing, but it Need not Be -- Chapter 7. Types of Focus and their Interaction with Negation -- Chapter 8. Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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