In this volume, Luis Lรณpez 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', a
A derivational syntax for information structure
โ Scribed by Luis Lรณpez
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 308
- Series
- Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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