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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kiss, Katalin É
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Series:Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Topic and comment.
Generative grammar.
Sujet et prédicat.
Grammaire générative.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general > Topic and comment
Topic (taalwetenschap)
Focus (taalkunde)
Generatieve grammatica.
Vergelijkende grammatica.
Woordvolgorde.
Grammar
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction; 2. Structural Focus, Structural Case, and the Notion of Feature-Assignment; 3. Aspects of Discourse Configuationality in Somali; 4. Residual Verb Second and Verb First in Basque; 5. Structural Properties of Information Packaging in Catalan; 6. An F Position in Western Romance; 7. Focusing in Modern Greek; 8. NP Movement, Operator Movement, and Scrambling in Hungarian; 9. Discourse Configuationality in Finnish; 10. Focus and Topic Movement in Korean and Licensing; 11. The Theory of Syntactic Focalization Based on a Subcategorization Feature of Verbs.

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