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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955895903321

Autore

Rochemont Michael S (Michael Shaun), <1950->

Titolo

Focus in generative grammar / / by Michael S. Rochemont

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986

ISBN

9786613092991

90-272-8633-7

1-283-09299-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

SIGLA ; ; v. 4

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Generative grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

FOCUS IN GENERATIVE GRAMMAR; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; Dedication; Introduction; Chapter 1. Accent and Focus; Chapter 2. The Interpretation of Focus; Chapter 3. The Representation of Focus; Chapter 4. Constructional Focus; Chapter 5. Cleft Focus; Chapter 6. Summary; FOOTNOTES; References; The series STUDIES IN GENERATIVE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Sommario/riassunto

The topic of this book is the notion of 'focus' and its linguistic characterization. The main thesis is that focus has a uniform grammatical identification only as a syntactic element with - in English at least - a certain systematic phonological interpretation and - presumably universally - a range of semantic interpretations. In broad respects, the framework within this investigation is conducted is that of Chomsky & Lasnik (1977) and the subsequent Government and Binding framework. After considering defining the location of prominence in a focused phrase in terms of constituent structure, t