03460nam 2200577 a 450 991082131830332120200520144314.01-282-16338-8978661216338890-272-9918-8(CKB)1000000000578488(OCoLC)70768725(CaPaEBR)ebrary10014679(SSID)ssj0000284646(PQKBManifestationID)11227420(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284646(PQKBWorkID)10262170(PQKB)11384081(MiAaPQ)EBC623171(EXLCZ)99100000000057848820000818d2000 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrSyntactic aspects of topic and comment /Andre Meinunger1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub.c20001 online resource (259 p.) Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today ;v. 38Revision of the author's thesis (Discourse dependent DP (de-)placement), 1994/1995.1-55619-989-9 90-272-2759-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and indexes.SYNTACTIC ASPECTS OF TOPIC AND COMMENT -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of frequent abbrevations -- Introduction: Some philosophical reflections -- Chapter 1. Discourse dependent tree splitting -- Chapter 2. The structure of the German VP -- Chapter 3. A trigger for scrambling -- Chapter 4. Agr nodes as topic hosts -- Chapter 5. The typological chapter -- Chapter 6. Notes on extraction -- Chapter 7. Conclusions -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- The Series LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY.The book focuses on the syntactic behavior of argument noun phrases depending on their discourse status. The main language of consideration is German, but it is shown that the observations can be carried over to other languages. The claim is that discourse-new arguments remain inside the VP where they are base generated. The hierarchy of argument projection is claimed to be fix within and across languages. With the major attention to direct objects it is then argued that discourse-old, here called topical noun phrases undergo raising to agreement projections. This movement can be realized differently: scrambling, object agreement, clitic-doubling, differences in morphological case and stress pattern turn out to be analyzable as one underlying phenomenon. It is furthermore shown that many so-called subject:object asymmetries boil down to topic:non-topic differences, for example with respect to extraction. Thus, irrespectively of the argumental status discourse-new constituents do not act as barriers whereas topical arguments create (weak) islands.Linguistik aktuell ;Bd. 38.Grammar, Comparative and generalTopic and commentGrammar, Comparative and generalSyntaxGrammar, Comparative and generalTopic and comment.Grammar, Comparative and generalSyntax.415Meinunger Andre387427MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821318303321Syntactic aspects of topic and comment993597UNINA