Syntax-Information Structure Interactions in the Sentential, Verbal and Nominal Peripheries

✍ Scribed by Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 156
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Word Order, Information Structure and the CP Phase
2 Phases and Peripheries
3 Subextraction through Doubled Datives
4 Discourse-Induced Movement in Root and Non-Root Clauses
5 General Conclusions
References

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