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Topic, focus, and configurationality : papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984 / edited by Werner Abraham & Sjaak de Meij.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Groningen Grammar Talks (6th : 1984)
- Groningen Grammar Talks.
- Series:
- Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 4.
- Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 ; Bd. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Congresses.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Generative grammar--Congresses.
- Generative grammar.
- German language--Syntax--Congresses.
- German language.
- Hungarian language--Syntax--Congresses.
- Hungarian language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Some fundamental questions regarding sentence structure in linguistics concern whether all languages, at some level of abstraction, have the same structure, and what are the basic categories with which to describe sentence structure. The contributors of this volume are specialized in two quite different languages: Hungarian and German. Of the German papers three are mainly about focus (Abraham, Jacobs, and Stechow-Uhman), whereas the remaining ones (Haider and Scherpenisse) are mainly about V-second. The Hungarian papers are all about focus, of which those of Kálman, Kiefer, Marácz, and De Mey
- Contents:
- TOPIC, FOCUS, AND CONFIGURATIONALITY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; WORD ORDER IN THE MIDDLE FIELD OF THE GERMAN SENTENCE; CONFIGURATIONALITY IN DISGUISE: WORD ORDER AND THE V-2 PROPERTY; REMARKSON THE CONFIGURATIONALITY-ISSUE; THE EXPRESSION OF LOGICAL SCOPE IN HUNGARIAN; THE SYNTAX OF FOCUS AND ADVERBIALS IN GERMAN; HOCUS, FOCUS, AND VERB TYPES IN HUNGARIAN INFINITIVECONSTRUCTIONS; ON THE LOGIC OF WORD ORDER IN HUNGARIAN; EPISTEMIC POSSIBILITY AND FOCUS; THE ORDER AND SCOPE OF OPERATORS IN THE HUNGARIAN SENTENCE; FOCUSSING ON FOCUS IN HUNGARIAN
- DRESSED OR NAKED: THE CASE OF THE PP IN HUNGARIANON QUESTION SENTENCES IN HUNGARIAN; TOPIC, THEME AND THE GERMAN INITIAL FIELD; SOME REMARKS ON FOCUS PROJECTION; FROM THE DEFINITENESS EFFECT TO LEXICAL INTEGRITY
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613234377
- 1-283-23437-8
- 90-272-8249-8
- OCLC:
- 745866938
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