Comprising eleven studies on languages with designated structural topic and focus positions, this volume includes an introduction surveying the empirical and theoretical problems involved in the description of this language type. Focusing on languages outside the traditional Indo-European group, the essays look at Chadic, Somali, Basque, Catalan, Old Romance, Greek, Hungarian, Finnish, Korean, and Quechua. The papers provide interesting new empirical data, as well as a variety of means and alternatives of representing them structurally. At the same time, they address important theoretical questions in the framework of generative theory. This is the first study to apply methods of comparative syntax to the study of topic and focus.
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Katalin E. Kiss is at Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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nominative case, verbal complex, structural case, topic movement, complex predicate formation, pied piping, left dislocation, licensing condition, focus criterion, verb movement, default topic, syntactic focalization, alguns clients, preposed focus phrase, subject resumptive pronoun, primary predication relation, syntactic focus movement, discourse configurationality, overt focus movement, information foci, evidentials occur, contrastive foci, nominative assignment, empty argument position, incorporated constituent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Focus Movement, Linguistic Inquiry, Ortiz de Urbina, New York, Modern Greek, The Notion of Feature-Assignment, Verb-Inherent Hypothesis, The Theory of Syntactic Focalization, Universal Grammar, Aspects of Discourse Configurationality, Western Romance, Projection Principle, Structural Properties of Information Packaging, Working Papers, Main News, Western Bade, Academic Press, John Benjamins, S-structure Focus, Cali Maryan, Korean Linguistics, University College London, Linguistic Analysis, Harvard Studies, Hungarian Focus Browse Sample Pages:
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nominative case, verbal complex, structural case, topic movement, complex predicate formation, pied piping, left dislocation, licensing condition, focus criterion, verb movement, default topic, syntactic focalization, alguns clients, preposed focus phrase, subject resumptive pronoun, primary predication relation, syntactic focus movement, discourse configurationality, overt focus movement, information foci, evidentials occur, contrastive foci, nominative assignment, empty argument position, incorporated constituent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Focus Movement, Linguistic Inquiry, Ortiz de Urbina, New York, Modern Greek, The Notion of Feature-Assignment, Verb-Inherent Hypothesis, The Theory of Syntactic Focalization, Universal Grammar, Aspects of Discourse Configurationality, Western Romance, Projection Principle, Structural Properties of Information Packaging, Working Papers, Main News, Western Bade, Academic Press, John Benjamins, S-structure Focus, Cali Maryan, Korean Linguistics, University College London, Linguistic Analysis, Harvard Studies, Hungarian Focus Browse Sample Pages:
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