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Discourse configurational languages / edited by Katalin É. Kiss.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford studies in comparative sytax.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in comparative sytax
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Generative grammar.
- Physical Description:
- 393 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 essays look at Chadic, Somali, Basque, Catalan, Old Romance, Greek, Hungarian, Finnish, Korean, and Quechua. The papers provide interesting new empirical data, as well as a variety of means and alternatives of representing them structurally. At the same time, they address important theoretical questions in the framework of generative theory. This is the first study to apply methods of comparative syntax to the study of topic and focus.
- Contents:
- Intro
- 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
- 12. Focus in Quechua.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772154-0
- 1-280-53487-7
- 0-19-535850-3
- OCLC:
- 435816692
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