Focus and secondary predication /

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Author / Creator:	Winkler, Susanne, 1960-
Imprint:	Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 481 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in generative grammar ; 43 Studies in generative grammar ; 43.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Focus (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase. Generative grammar. Focus (Linguistics) Generative grammar. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11158247

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ISBN:	9783110815214 3110815214 3110150573 9783110150575
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Tübingen, 1994. Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-464) and index.
Other form:	Print version: Winkler, Susanne, 1960- Focus and secondary predication. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
1. Syntactic focus theory and the phenomenon of secondary predication
2. Roadmap
2. Syntactic representation of secondary predications
1. The small clause analysis
1.1. The theoretical program
1.2. Stowellâ€?s dilemma: problems with the ungoverned status of PRO
1.3. Alternative small clause proposals
1.4. Hoekstraâ€?s (1988) generalization of the small clause analysis to resultatives
1.5. Conclusion
2. The predication theory analysis
2.1. Williams (1980): the theory of predication
2.2. Williamsâ€? (1983) arguments against small clauses2.3. Conclusion
3. Distributional syntax of secondary predications
3.1. Rothsteinâ€?s (1985) elaboration of the predication theory
3.2. Culicover & Wilkins (1984, 1986): VP-internal representation of depictives
3.3. McNulty (1988): modifications of Rothsteinâ€?s analysis
3.4. Roberts (1988): the subject in VP hypothesis
4. Defending a complex predicate analysis
4.1. Larsonâ€?s (1988) complex predicate analysis
4.2. Modification of Larsonâ€?s proposal
4.3. Theta-theoretical considerations5. Conclusion
3. Focus structure in a principle-based theory of grammar
1. Introduction
2. Focus as a syntactic feature: a historical development
2.1. The syntactic approach
2.2. The semantic-pragmatic approach
2.3. Focus as new information
2.4. The focus structure approach
2.5. Conclusion
3. The modularity of intonational models and the theory of focus
3.1. Culicover & Rochemont (1983): a modular NSR-based account
3.2. Gussenhoven (1983): focus domain formation replacing the NSR
3.3. Selkirk (1984): a pitch-accent-first model3.4. Rochemont (1986): an elaborated pitch-accent-first model
3.5. The concept of argument structure in Selkirkâ€?s and Rochemontâ€?s focus theories
3.6. Excursion: Cinqueâ€?s (1993) revival of the syntactic approach
4. Conclusion
4. Focus theory and theta-saturation theory as methods of licensing
1. Introduction
2. The intonational model
3. The motivation of the intonational model
3.1. WH-questions are not an exception to the DFA
3.2. Focus assignment at D-structure
3.3. Focus assignment and adjuncts3.4. Licensing, focus, and the argument-adjunct asymmetry in a derivational approach
4. A generalization of the focus licensing principles
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The licensing theory of theta-saturation and argument structure
4.3. Focus licensing principles revisited
5. Conclusion
5. Pitch extraction analysis of secondary predications: experimental data
1. Introduction and experimental design
2. Pitch extraction analysis of resultatives and depictives
2.1. Transitive AP resultatives

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