The Syntax of Topic, Focus, and Contrast : : An Interface-based Approach / / ed. by Ad Neeleman, Reiko Vermeulen.
This book addresses how core notions of information structure (topic, focus and contrast) are expressed in syntax. The authors propose that the syntactic effects of information structure come about as a result of mapping rules that are flexible enough to allow topics and foci to be expressed in a va...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Table of 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