Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure
|
Buy Now
A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R4,434
Discovery Miles 44 340
|
|
A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 23
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Donate to Against Period Poverty
Total price: R4,454
Discovery Miles: 44 540
|
In this volume, Luis Lopez 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."
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.