Topic, focus, and configurationality : papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984
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Topic, focus, and configurationality : papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984
（Linguistik aktuell, Bd. 4）
J. Benjamins, 1986
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Some fundamental questions regarding sentence structure in linguistics concern whether all languages, at some level of abstraction, have the same structure, and what are the basic categories with which to describe sentence structure. The contributors of this volume are specialized in two quite different languages: Hungarian and German. Of the German papers three are mainly about focus (Abraham, Jacobs, and Stechow-Uhman), whereas the remaining ones (Haider and Scherpenisse) are mainly about V-second. The Hungarian papers are all about focus, of which those of Kalman, Kiefer, Maracz, and De Mey-Maracz are about focussing in the stricter sense. Hunyadi, Kenesei and E. Kiss focus on the pre-verbal area in general and the interpretation of operators in Hungarian in particular. The remaining papers (Horvath, Komlosy, and Szabolczi) are on the position of the PRE-V, the position immediately after the finite verb.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction (by Abraham, Werner)
- 2. Word Order in the Middle Field of the German Sentence (by Abraham, Werner)
- 3. Configurationality in Disguise: Word Order and the V-2 Property (by Haider, Hubert)
- 4. Remarks on the Configurationality-Issue (by Horvath, Julia)
- 5. The Expression of Logical Scope in Hungarian (by Hunyadi, Laszlo)
- 6. The Syntax of Focus and Adverbials in German (by Jacobs, Joachim)
- 7. Hocus, Focus, and Verb Types in Hungarian Infinitive Constructions (by Kalman, Laszlo)
- 8. On the Logic of Word Order in Hungarian (by Kenesei, Istvan)
- 9. Epistemic Possibility and Focus (by Kiefer, Ferenc)
- 10. The Order and Scope of Operators in the Hungarian Sentence (by Kiss, Katalin E.)
- 11. Focussing on Focus in Hungarian (by Komlosy, Andras)
- 12. Dressed or Naked: the Case of the PP in Hungarian (by Maracz, Laszlo)
- 13. On Question Sentences in Hungarian (by Mey, Sjaak de)
- 14. Some Remarks on Focus Projection (by Stechow, Arnim von)
- 15. From the Definiteness Effect to Lexical Integrity (by Szabolcsi, Anna)
- 16. Contributors to this volume
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