Information structure and agreement / edited by Victoria Camacho-Taboada ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Camacho Taboada, María Victoria.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 197.

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 197

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment.

Contrastive linguistics.

Focus (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The existing syntactic accounts of null arguments typically rely either on the specific licensing conditions for different types of empty categories such as pro and (topic-)bound variables, or else on different kinds of ellipsis. In trying to address the radical argument drop character of Catalan Sign Language (LSC), this paper critically reassesses the two main trends in the analysis of this phenomenon in East Asian languages and their extensions to American Sign Language (ASL). Both hybrid and uniform approaches to empty arguments turn out to be unable to account for the non-negligibl

Contents:

Information Structure and Agreement; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Information structure, agreement and CP; References; The complementiser system in spoken English; 1. Introduction; 2. C1 in complement clauses; 3. C2 in declarative complement clauses; 4. C2 in subordinate adverbial clauses; 5. C2 in subordinate wh-clauses; 6. C2 in comparative correlatives; 7. C2 in root focus and exclamative clauses; 8. C2 in root clauses after modal adverbials; 9. C2 in other root clauses; 10. Asymmetry between C1 and C2 structures; 11. Source of C1 and C2 structures; 12. Summary

References'Phasing' contrast at the interfaces; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic assumptions for the analysis; 2.1 The hierarchical distribution of informational meanings; 2.2 What counts as marked in the discourse; 3. The analysis of the Topic domain; 3.1 Different types of Topic; 3.2 The impact of topics in conversational dynamics; 3.3 The compositional nature of Topics and discourse markedness; 4. The correlation between phases and discourse features; 4.1 On the nature of contrast: a necessary distinction; 5. Discourse features, prosodic properties and conversational dynamics

5.1 Exploring the correlation5.2 Parallel structures and the interpretation of features across phases; 5.3 IS-feature composition and syntactic visibility; 6. Conclusions; 7. An 'afterthought': Givenness in a feature-based approach; References; The alternation between improper indirect questions and restrictive relatives; 1. Introduction; 2. The distinction between proper and improper indirect questions; 2.1 Proper and improper indirect questions in Spanish and English; 2.2 Proper and improper indirect questions in European Portuguese

3. Predicate selection and the alternation between improper indirect questions and restrictive relatives3.1 Predicate selection of proper and improper indirect questions; 3.2 Verbs that allow for the alternation improper relatives and restrictive relatives; 4. A syntactic modular approach to improper indirect questions and restrictive relatives; 4.1 Proper and improper Wh-questions in Spanish and Portuguese; 4.2 The alternation between improper indirect questions and restrictive relatives; 5. Conclusion; References; Referentiality in Spanish CPs; 1. Introduction

2. The left periphery of embedded clauses: Structural differences2.1 Non-referential CPs have more structure; 2.2 Some extraction facts; 3. Referentiality and proposition resolution; 3.1 A working characterization of sentential referentiality; 3.2 More on referentiality: "do so", "it" and "todo lo"; 3.3 Referentiality and "todo lo"; 4. Preguntar and the optionality of que; 5. Conclusion: A recap of the main claims; References; Binding at the syntax-information structure interface; 1. Introduction; 2. The influence of information structure on (anti-)connectivity effects

3. Heycock and Kroch's (2002) syntax-information structure account for binding

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283989886

1283989883

9789027273024

9027273022

OCLC:

827208644