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Derivational Syntax for Information Structure

Luis Lopez
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      In this volume, Luis López 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 ofsyntax—-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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Luis Lopez EAN: 9780199557417 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 491 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-02-26 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 157 cm SPINE:

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      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology

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      Luis López is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of Locality and the Architecture of Syntactic Dependencies (2007) and co-editor, along with Rafael Núñez-Cedeño and Richard Cameron, of Language Knowledge and Language Use (2004).
      In this volume, Luis López 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 ofsyntax—-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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Luis Lopez EAN: 9780199557417 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 491 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-02-26 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 157 cm SPINE:

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      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology

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      Luis López is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of Locality and the Architecture of Syntactic Dependencies (2007) and co-editor, along with Rafael Núñez-Cedeño and Richard Cameron, of Language Knowledge and Language Use (2004).

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