| Description |
1 online resource (393 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford studies in comparative syntax |
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Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 ques |
| Analysis |
Grammar |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment.
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Generative grammar.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Generative grammar
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment
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Topic (taalwetenschap)
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Focus (taalkunde)
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Generatieve grammatica.
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Vergelijkende grammatica.
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Woordvolgorde.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kiss, Katalin É.
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| LC no. |
93041037 |
| ISBN |
9780195358506 |
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0195358503 |
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9780195088335 |
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0195088336 |
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9786610534876 |
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661053487X |
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1280534877 |
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9781280534874 |
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