Information Structure : The Syntax-Discourse Interface.
Başlık:
Information Structure : The Syntax-Discourse Interface.
Yazar:
Erteschik-Shir, Nomi.
ISBN:
9780191532290
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Seri:
Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology, No. 3 ; v.No. 3
Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology, No. 3
İçerik:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Architectures and Information Structure Inventory -- 2.1. Inventory: topics -- 2.1.1. Danish topicalization -- 2.1.2. Catalan: Links and Tails -- 2.1.3. Topics and truth values -- 2.1.4. Stage topics -- 2.1.5. Permanently available topics -- 2.1.6. Topic tests -- 2.1.7. Multiple topics -- 2.1.8. Topic drop -- 2.1.9. Scope and topic properties -- 2.2. Inventory: foci -- 2.2.1. Semantic definitions -- 2.2.2. Marking foci by stress -- 2.2.3. Deriving foci from stress -- 2.2.4. Deriving stress from syntax -- 2.2.5. Deriving syntax from IS -- 2.2.6. Deriving focus pragmatically -- 2.2.7. Summing up focus properties -- 2.3. Putting it all together: f(ocus)-structure -- 2.3.1. Topic-focus interactions -- 2.3.2. Notation -- 2.3.3. Contrastive and restrictive topics and foci -- 2.3.4. Indefinite topics -- 2.3.5. Some answers -- 2.4. IS architecture -- 2.4.1. Stylistic components -- 2.4.2. Σ-structure -- 2.4.3. IS at PF -- 2.4.4. Functional features -- 2.4.5. Lexical features -- 2.4.6. Multiply-dimensional architectures -- 2.5. Functionalism -- 2.5.1. Functionalism vs. formalism -- 2.5.2. Functionalist methodology -- 3. Configurations -- 3.1. Configurational languages -- 3.2. The left periphery -- 3.2.1. Cartography -- 3.2.2. An even finer structure of the left periphery -- 3.3. The importance of information structure -- 3.3.1. Distinguishing topicalization from left dislocation in English -- 3.3.2. Focus preposing and Yiddish movement in English -- 3.3.3. When the left-peripheral element does not have information-structural impact -- 3.3.4. Fronting non-topics -- 3.3.5. Focusing the subject: existentials -- 3.3.6. Clefts: syntactic mapping of information structure -- 3.3.7. Other strategies for marking subjects as non-topics -- 3.3.8. Left-peripheral prospects -- 3.4. Scrambling.
3.4.1. Scrambling in Russian -- 3.4.2. Scrambling in Japanese -- 3.4.3. Dutch scrambling -- 3.4.4. Scrambling in Persian -- 3.5. Scandinavian object shift -- 3.6. Concluding remarks on word order -- 4. Information Structure Constraints -- 4.1. Identification -- 4.1.1. Argument identification, a constraint on topicalization -- 4.1.2. Identification of IS functions -- 4.2. IS constraints on syntax -- 4.2.1. I(dentificational)- dependencies -- 4.2.2. Canonical f-structures -- 4.2.3. The constraint on I-dependencies -- 4.2.4. Wh-topics -- 4.2.5. Topic-islands -- 4.2.6. That-t effects -- 4.3. Superiority -- 4.3.1. Superiority in other languages -- 4.4. IS constraints on complex NP -- 4.4.1. Extraposition from NP -- 4.4.2. Extraction from NP -- 4.5. Processing -- 4.6. Architectural consequences -- 5. Aspectual Focus -- 5.1. The theory of atoms -- 5.1.1. Aspectual focus -- 5.2. Meaning components and extraction -- 5.2.1. Manner-of-speaking verbs -- 5.2.2. Picture NPs -- 5.2.3. Datives -- 5.3. Missing objects -- 5.3.1. Missing objects in "Activities" -- 5.3.2. Object omission in habituals -- 5.4. Contextual binding of lexical constituents -- 6. The Division of Labor between Syntax and IS -- References -- Index of terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Language Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- W -- Index of authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
Özet:
This introduction to information structure discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface. It examines whether information structure maps onto syntax, and if so how. The topics covered include definitions of topic and focus, architectures of grammar, information structure, word order, the lexicon and information structure interface, and cognitive aspects of information structure. This book will appeal to graduate students of syntax and semantics in. departments of linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. - ;This introduction to the role of information structure in grammar discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface. It examines theories of information structure and considers their effectiveness in explaining whether and how information structure maps onto syntax in discourse. Professor Erteschik-Shir begins by discussing the basic notions and properties of information structure, such as topic and focus, and considers their properties from different. theoretical perspectives. She covers definitions of topic and focus, architectures of grammar, information structure, word order, the interface between lexicon and information structure, and cognitive aspects of information structure. In her balanced and readable account, the author critically compares the effectiveness of different theoretical approaches and assesses the value of insights drawn from work in processing and on language acquisition, variation, and universals. This book will appeal to graduate students of syntax and semantics in departments of linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. - ;...well written and a number of complex ideas are nicely distilled along the way... - Daniel Wedgwood, Journal of Linguistics.
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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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