Syntactic aspects of topic and comment /
The book focuses on the syntactic behavior of argument noun phrases depending on their discourse status. The main language of consideration is German, but it is shown that the observations can be carried over to other languages. The claim is that discourse-new arguments remain inside the VP where th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2000.
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Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 38. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- SYNTACTIC ASPECTS OF TOPIC AND COMMENT
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC page
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of frequent abbrevations
- Introduction: Some philosophical reflections
- Chapter 1. Discourse dependent tree splitting
- Chapter 2. The structure of the German VP
- Chapter 3. A trigger for scrambling
- Chapter 4. Agr nodes as topic hosts
- Chapter 5. The typological chapter
- Chapter 6. Notes on extraction
- Chapter 7. Conclusions
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
- The Series LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY.