A derivational syntax for information structure
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A derivational syntax for information structure
（Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics, 23）（Oxford linguistics）
Oxford University Press, 2009
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Description of hbk. based on 2009 reprint. Differs from <BA89676615> in series title
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-288) and index
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In this volume, Luis Lopez 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', as usually defined, yield no predictions and proposes instead a feature system based on the notions 'discourse anaphor' and 'contrast'. He presents a detailed model of
syntax--information-structure interaction and argues that this interaction takes place at the phase level, with a privileged role for the edge of the phase. Further, he investigates phenomena concerning the syntax of objects in Romance and Germanic - accusative A, p-movement, clitic doubling,
scrambling, object shift - and shows that there are cross-linguistic correlations between syntactic configuration and specificity, independent of discourse connectedness. The volume ends with an extended analysis of the syntax of dislocations in Romance.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Information Structure
- 3. The Syntax of Dislocations and Focus Fronting
- 4. The Derivation of Information Structure
- 5. Moving Objects
- 6. Dislocation Debates
- References
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