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The Syntax of Topic, Focus, and Contrast

By Ad Neeleman

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2012
ISBN
161451156X, 9781614511564
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
979 kB (1002457 bytes)
Series
Studies in Generative Grammar 113
Pages
307\316
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-04-24 18:50:52

Description

This book addresses how core notions of information structure (topic, focus and contrast) are expressed in syntax.The authorspropose that the syntactic effects of information structure come about as a result of mapping rules flexible enough to allow topics and foci to be expressed in a variety of positions, but strict enough to capture certain cross-linguistic generalisations about their distribution. Syntactic and semantic evidence from a range of languages are discussed.

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