Syntax-information structure interactions in the sentential, verbal and nominal peripheries / Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jiménez-Fernández, Ángel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Periphery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

This book considers the connection between information structure and syntax, exploring formal explanations to account for the distribution of discourse-based phenomena such as topic preposing and focus fronting across languages, with a particular focus on English and Spanish. It discusses issues such as word order and the diverse conditions under which types of topics and foci are licensed in different contexts. It shows the different behaviors of languages with respect to specific discourse-oriented operations to be the consequence of feature inheritance, which takes place in the different peripheries detected in the sentence. The book will be of interest to linguists and MA and PhD students of linguistics.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

References.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-4914-3

1-5275-4845-7

OCLC:

1153817892