Contrasts and positions in information structure /

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Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:	vii, 346 pages : 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Contrastive linguistics. Focus (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment. Contrastive linguistics. Focus (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8908802

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Other authors / contributors:	Kučerová, Ivona. Neeleman, Ad
ISBN:	9781107001985 1107001986
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 322- 339) and index.
Summary:	"Information structure, or the way the information in a sentence is 'divided' into categories such as topic, focus, comment, background, and old versus new information, is one of the most widely debated topics in linguistics. This volume incorporates exciting new work on the relationship between syntax and information structure. The contributors are united in rejecting accounts that assume designated syntactic positions associated with specific information-structural interpretations, and aim instead to derive information-structural conditions on word order and other phenomena from the way syntax and syntax-external systems interact. Beyond this shared aim, the authors of the various chapters advocate a number of approaches, based on different types of data (syntactic, semantic, phonological/phonetic) from a range of languages. The book is aimed at specialists in syntax and/or information structure, as well as students and linguists in related fields keen to familiarise themselves with current issues in this fascinating area of research"--

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. The Architecture of Grammar and the Primitives of Information Structure
2. Predicate integration: phrase structure or argument structure?
3. Wh-intonation and information structure in South Kyeongsang Korean and Tokyo Japanese
4. Grammatical marking of givenness
5. Interface configurations: identificational focus and the flexibility of syntax
6. Focus and givenness: a unified approach
7. The locality of focusing and the coherence of anaphors
Part II. Exploring the Interfaces: Case Studies
8. NP ellipsis without focus movement/projections: the role of classifiers
9. Focus in Greek wh-questions
10. Against FocusP: arguments from Zulu Lisa
11. Scrambling as formal movement
12. Left peripheral arguments and discourse interface strategies in Yucatec Maya
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