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Ellipsis and Focus in Generative Grammar
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Susanne Winkler
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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Covering linguistic research on empty categories over more than three decades, this monograph presents the result of an in-depth syntactic and focus-theoretical
Focus in Generative Grammar
Language: en
Pages: 235
Authors: Michael S. Rochemont
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The topic of this book is the notion of ‘focus’ and its linguistic characterization. The main thesis is that focus has a uniform grammatical identification
Focus Structure in Generative Grammar
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Carsten Breul
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the s
The Grammar of Focus
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Georges Rebuschi
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The grammar of focus has been studied in generative grammar from its inception. It has been the subject of intense, detailed cross-linguistic investigation for
Aspects of the Grammar of Focus
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Przemysław Tajsner
Categories: English language
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Peter Lang

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The book examines the aspects of focus within the recent minimalist paradigm. Focus is viewed here as a grammar's response to the requirements of the systems ex