Syntax of topic, focus, and contrast : an interface-based approach

✍ Scribed by Ad Neeleman; Reiko Vermeulen

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 316
Series: Studies in generative grammar, 113
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content: The syntactic expression of information structure / Ad Neeleman and Reiko Vermeulen --
Towards a unified encoding of contrast and scope / Ad Neeleman and Hans van de Koot --
Word order variation and information structure in Japanese and Korean / Reiko Vermeulen --
Encoding focus and contrast in Russian / Elena Titov --
Against FP analyses of clefts / Matthew Reeve --
Focus movement can be destressing, but it need not be / Kriszta Szendröi --
Types of focus and their Interaction with negation / Ad Neeleman and Reiko Vermeulen --
Concluding remarks / Ad Neeleman and Reiko Vermeulen --
References --
Index.

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