A derivational syntax for information structure / Luis Lopez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

López, Luis.

Series:

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 23.

Oxford linguistics.

Oxford linguistics

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; no. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this volume, Luis L--oacute--;pez 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 ofsyntax---information-structure interaction and argues that this interaction takes place at the phase level, with a privilege

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The theoretical problem: phases and information structure; 1.2 Brief description of the database; 1.2.1 Clitic left dislocation and hanging topics; 1.2.2 Clitic right dislocation; 1.2.3 Focus fronting; 1.2.4 P-movement, scrambling, and object shift; 1.2.5 Accusative A; 1.2.6 Clitic doubling; 1.3 Assumptions; 1.4 Sketch of the analyses and theoretical proposals; 1.5 Conventions for glosses and translations; 2 Information structure; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Deconstructing Topic, Focus, and Contrastive Focus; 2.2.1 Topic; 2.2.2 Focus

2.2.3 [+a] and [+c]2.3 Dislocations; 2.3.1 Introduction; 2.3.2 Locality; 2.3.3 Contrast; 2.3.4 Discourse structure; 2.3.5 Links and tails; 2.3.6 Summary; 2.4 Focus, high and low; 2.4.1 Introduction; 2.4.2 Are there low contrastive foci?; 2.4.3 Are there mid-level contrasts?; 2.4.4 Are there high non-contrastive foci?; 2.4.5 Exhaustive focus; 2.5 Consequences; 2.5.1 Introduction; 2.5.2 Stressed pronouns; 2.5.3 Answers to D-linked questions; 2.5.4 Focus and Topic as syntactic categories; 2.5.5 HTLD; 2.6 From stress to focus?; 2.6.1 Red convertibles

2.6.2 Focus, the Nuclear Stress Rule (NSR), and Stress Shift2.7 Conclusion; 3 The syntax of dislocations and focus fronting; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 CLRD; 3.2.1 The position of CLRD; 3.2.2 The structure of the clitic; 3.2.3 Assignment of [+a]; 3.2.4 Order; 3.2.5 Interim conclusions; 3.3 Movement to Spec,Fin; 3.3.1 Split CP; 3.3.2 Spec,Fin as landing site; 3.3.3 Multiple specifiers and the LCA; 3.3.4 Why Spec,Fin?; 3.4 CLLD; 3.4.1 Assignment of [+c]; 3.4.2 Assignment of [+a]; 3.5 FF and wh-movement; 3.6 Co-occurrence restrictions without X'-theory; 3.7 Dislocated subjects; 3.7.1 Introduction

3.7.2 The SVO order3.7.3 Right dislocated subjects; 3.8 Left periphery: lush or sparse? The case of Finnish; 3.8.1 The difference with Catalan; 3.8.2 Alternatives within a TopP/FocP framework; 3.8.3 One final look at Finnish objects and the feature [+a]; 3.9 Conclusions; 4 The derivation of information structure; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Derivational assignment of [±a] and [±c]; 4.2.1 Sub-extraction and feature conservation; 4.2.2 Some derivations in detail; 4.2.3 Improper movement; 4.3 Criterial Freezing; 4.4 Derivations and representations; 4.5 Conclusions; 5 Moving objects

5.1 Introduction: [+a] and [+spec]5.2 P-movement; 5.2.1 P-movement: empirical problems; 5.2.2 P-movement in Spanish; 5.2.3 CLRD and p-movement; 5.2.4 Is p-movement prosodic movement?; 5.2.5 P-movement in Catalan and Italian; 5.3 Accusative A; 5.4 Clitic Doubling in Rioplatense; 5.5 The syntax of specificity; 5.6 Scrambling and object shift; 5.7 Conclusions; 6 Dislocation debates; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Movement or base-generation of dislocates; 6.2.1 CLLD and CLRD move, HTLD does not; 6.2.2 CLLD does not move: Part I; 6.2.3 CLLD does not move, Part II: epithets

6.2.4 LF movement of the clitic (as an operator)

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-288) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-955741-1

0-19-156528-8

0-19-156527-X

OCLC:

712015949