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The Syntax-Information Structure Interface: Evidence from Spanish and English: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

Autor Eugenia Casielles-Suárez
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 apr 2012
In the last decade, the notions of topic and focus have come to play an increasingly relevant role in theoretical linguistics. Although these notions are often taken for granted, they are still poorly understood. This study offers a detailed analysis of the precise definitions of these and related terms (theme, topic, background, given information, focus, contrast, etc.) as well as of their combination into information structures such as the topic-focus and background-focus articulations. It recommends pursuing a feature-based typology of topics and argues against a dual nature of focus (i.e. presentational vs. contrastive). Central questions addressed are the analysis of subjects in Spanish and English (DP vs NP and null vs. preverbal vs. postverbal) and the nature of constructions such as topicalization, left-dislocation, and focus preposing. Further, it is proposed that in Spanish information structure can be read off the syntax: while an overt DP in the preverbal specifier subject position is interpreted as the topic in a topic-focus articulation, one or more left-or right-dislocated phrases are interpreted as part of the background in background-focus/focus-background structures.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415537506
ISBN-10: 0415537509
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Eugenia Casielles-Suárez received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently teaches at Wayne State University.

Cuprins

Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Topics Chapter 3: Topical Phrases and Topicalizing Constructions Chapter 4: Bare Nominals Chapter 5: Focus Chapter 6: Focus Preposing Chapter 7: Information Structure and Syntactic Structure References Index

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Central questions addressed are the analysis of subjects in Spanish and English (DP vs. NP and null vs. preverbal vs. postverbal) and the nature of constructions such as topicalization, left-dislocation, and focus preposing.