The Syntax-Information Structure Interface Evidence from Spanish and English
In the last decade, the notions of topic and focus have come to play an increasingly relevant role in theoretical linguistics. Although these notions are often taken for granted, they are still poorly understood. This study offers a detailed analysis of the precise definitions of these and related t...
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| Language: | English Spanish |
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New York, N.Y
Routledge
2004
Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis Group |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics |
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| ISBN: | 9780415970952, 9780415537506, 0415537509, 0415970954 |
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Table of Contents:
- 5.3.5 Lambrecht's Sentence-, Predicate- and Argument-Focus -- 5.3.6 Kiss's Identificational vs. Information Focus -- 5.4 The Projection of Focus -- 5.5 Some Conclusions -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 Focus Preposing -- 6.1 Introduction1 -- 6.2 FP as a Topical Focus -- 6.2.1 The Reconstruction Analysis -- 6.2.2 The Interaction of Two Dichotomies -- 6.2.3 Metalinguistic Focus -- 6.3 FP as a Nontopical Focus -- 6.3.1 FP and Focused Subjects -- 6.3.2. FP and Language-Particular Features -- 6.3.3 FP and Wh-Movement -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 Information Structure and Syntactic Structure -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Topic-Focus Articulation -- 7.2.1 Previous Proposals -- 7.2.2 Vallduví's Link-Tail Division -- 7.2.3 Two Dichotomies -- 7.3 The TFA and Syntactic Structure -- 7.4 Overall Conclusions -- NOTES -- References -- Index
- Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- THE SYNTAX-INFORMATION STRUCTURE INTERFACE -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 Topics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Brief Historical Survey -- 2.3 Analysis of Topic Characterizations -- 2.3.1 Discourse Characterizations -- 2.3.1.1 Aboutness -- 2.3.1.2 Discourse Referent -- 2.3.1.3 Discourse-oldness -- 2.3.1.4 Context Boundness -- 2.3.2 Syntactic Characterizations -- 2.3.2.1 Sentence-initial Position -- 2.3.2.2 Subject -- 2.3.2.3 Pronominal Form -- 2.3.3 Some Conclusions -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 Topical Phrases and Topicalizing Constructions -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Topical Phrases -- 3.2.1 Null Phrases -- 3.2.1.1 Subject pro -- 3.2.1.2 Direct Object pro? -- 3.2.1.3 Object Clitics and Topical Objects -- 3.2.2 Overt Phrases -- 3.2.2.1 Full Pronouns -- 3.2.2.2 Lexical Phrases -- 3.2.2.3 Dislocated Phrases -- 3.2.3 Internal vs. External Topical Phrases -- 3.3 Topicalizing Constructions -- 3.3.1 Clitic Left-dislocation vs. English Left-dislocation -- 3.3.2 Spanish Strong-Pronoun Left-dislocation -- 3.3.3. CLLD with no overt clitic vs. English Topicalization -- 3.3.4 Right-dislocation -- 3.4 Towards a Typology of Topics -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 Bare Nominals -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A Syntactic View -- 4.2.1 Preverbal vs. Postverbal Subjects1 -- 4.2.2 Preverbal Subjects vs. Dislocated Phrases -- 4.2.3 Focused Subjects -- 4.3. A TFA View -- 4.4 Towards a TFA-syntactic view -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 Focus -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Focus, Accent, New Information and Sentence-final Position -- 5.3 Types of Focus -- 5.3.1 Rochemont's Presentational vs. Contrastive Focus6 -- 5.3.2 Gundel's Psychological, Semantic and Contrastive Focus -- 5.3.3 Erteschik-Shir's Metalinguistic Focus -- 5.3.4 Vallduví's Retrieve-Add vs. Retrieve-Substitute Focus