LEADER 03460nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910821318303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-16338-8 010 $a9786612163388 010 $a90-272-9918-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578488 035 $a(OCoLC)70768725 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10014679 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000284646 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11227420 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284646 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10262170 035 $a(PQKB)11384081 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC623171 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578488 100 $a20000818d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSyntactic aspects of topic and comment /$fAndre Meinunger 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJohn Benjamins Pub.$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (259 p.) 225 1 $aLinguistik aktuell = Linguistics today ;$vv. 38 300 $aRevision of the author's thesis (Discourse dependent DP (de-)placement), 1994/1995. 311 $a1-55619-989-9 311 $a90-272-2759-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and indexes. 327 $aSYNTACTIC 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. 330 $aThe book focuses on the syntactic behavior of argument noun phrases depending on their discourse status. The main language of consideration is German, but it is shown that the observations can be carried over to other languages. The claim is that discourse-new arguments remain inside the VP where they are base generated. The hierarchy of argument projection is claimed to be fix within and across languages. With the major attention to direct objects it is then argued that discourse-old, here called topical noun phrases undergo raising to agreement projections. This movement can be realized differently: scrambling, object agreement, clitic-doubling, differences in morphological case and stress pattern turn out to be analyzable as one underlying phenomenon. It is furthermore shown that many so-called subject:object asymmetries boil down to topic:non-topic differences, for example with respect to extraction. Thus, irrespectively of the argumental status discourse-new constituents do not act as barriers whereas topical arguments create (weak) islands. 410 0$aLinguistik aktuell ;$vBd. 38. 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xTopic and comment 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xSyntax 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xTopic and comment. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xSyntax. 676 $a415 700 $aMeinunger$b Andre$0387427 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821318303321 996 $aSyntactic aspects of topic and comment$9993597 997 $aUNINA