A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure

A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-13 : 0191565288
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Book Synopsis A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure by : Luis López

Download or read book A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure written by Luis López and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Luis López sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in Romance, the author shows that notions such as 'topic' and 'focus', as usually defined, yield no predictions and proposes instead a feature system based on the notions 'discourse anaphor' and 'contrast'. He presents a detailed model of syntax—-information-structure interaction and argues that this interaction takes place at the phase level, with a privileged role for the edge of the phase. Further, he investigates phenomena concerning the syntax of objects in Romance and Germanic - accusative A, p-movement, clitic doubling, scrambling, object shift - and shows that there are cross-linguistic correlations between syntactic configuration and specificity, independent of discourse connectedness. The volume ends with an extended analysis of the syntax of dislocations in Romance.


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