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The Architecture of Focus offers the most precise and recent characterization of the notion of focus in linguistic theory. The volume contains brand-new and innovative papers that target the nature of focus and topic at the interfaces of the model of grammar. There are four main sections: (i) a gene...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
2011. ©2006 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in generative grammar [sgg] ;
volume 82 |
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| Summary: |
The Architecture of Focus offers the most precise and recent characterization of the notion of focus in linguistic theory. The volume contains brand-new and innovative papers that target the nature of focus and topic at the interfaces of the model of grammar. There are four main sections: (i) a general section, concerned with the basic theory of the interaction of focus and topic with the components of grammar; (ii) the representation of focus at the syntax-pragmatics interface concentrating on language comparison; (iii) the phonological representation of focus and topic and its relation to meaning; and (iv) the interaction of focus and topic at the semantics-pragmatics interface with an emphasis on the notion of contrast. Together the papers collected in this volume present a state-of-the-art account of the architecture of focus. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii, 617 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783110922011 |
| Index Number: | P299 |
| CLC: | H04 |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Exploring the architecture of focus in grammar -- Part 1: Theoretical foundations of focus and information structure -- On the architecture of topic and focus -- Topic, focus and the structural dynamics of language -- On the (in)dependence relation between syntax and pragmatics -- Association with focus phrases -- Focus as identification -- Focussing as predication -- Part 2: The representation of focus, topic and contrast at the syntax-pragmatics interface -- On different kinds of contrast -- Contrast and movement to the German prefield -- Noncanonical negation and information structure in Finnish -- Double Negation and information structure: Somewhere between topic and focus -- Part 3: The phonological representation of focus, topic and contrast and its relation to meaning -- Focus projection and default prominence -- Focus on contrast and emphasis: Evidence from prosody -- Topic-focus controversies -- Part 4: Focus-related constructions in different languages -- Ellipsis at the interfaces: An information-structural proposal -- Elliptical dass-clauses in German -- On the discourse impact of subordinate clauses -- The influence of operators on the interpretation of DPs and PPs in German information structure -- Clefts in English and Norwegian: Implications for the grammar-pragmatics interface -- The complex functions of it-clefts -- Focus constructions in Hausa -- Index |