A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure

By: Luis Lopez

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Hardcover | 18 December 2008

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In this volume, Luis L³pez 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.

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