Discourse configurational languages / / edited by Katalin E. Kiss

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 393 p
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment; Generative grammar
• Altri autori: KissKatalin E
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1995.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Structural Focus, Structural Case, and the Notion of Feature-Assignment -- 3. Aspects of Discourse Configuationality in Somali -- 4. Residual Verb Second and Verb First in Basque -- 5. Structural Properties of Information Packaging in Catalan -- 6. An F Position in Western Romance -- 7. Focusing in Modern Greek -- 8. NP Movement, Operator Movement, and Scrambling in Hungarian -- 9. Discourse Configuationality in Finnish -- 10. Focus and Topic Movement in Korean and Licensing -- 11. The Theory of Syntactic Focalization Based on a Subcategorization Feature of Verbs -- 12. Focus in Quechua.
• Sommario/riassunto: Comprising eleven studies on languages with designated structural topic and focus positions, this volume includes an introduction surveying the empirical and theoretical problems involved in the description of this language type. Focusing on languages outside the traditional Indo-European group, the essays look at Chadic, Somali, Basque, Catalan, Old Romance, Greek, Hungarian, Finnish, Korean, and Quechua. The papers provide interesting new empirical data, as well as a variety of means and alternatives of representing them structurally. At the same time, they address important theoretical questions in the framework of generative theory. This is the first study to apply methods of comparative syntax to the study of topic and focus.
• Titolo autorizzato: Discourse configurational languages
• ISBN: 0-19-772154-0; 1-280-53487-7; 0-19-535850-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910955327003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford studies in comparative sytax.; Oxford scholarship online.