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A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure

A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure


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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 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.

About the Author:
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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  • ISBN-13: 9780199557400
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • Publisher Imprint: Oup Oxford
  • Depth: 31
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Series Title: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
  • Weight: 607 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199557403
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 1
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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