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In this volume, Luis Lopez sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in Romance, the author shows that notions such as 'topic' and 'focus', as usually defined, yield no predictions and proposes instead a feature system based on the notions 'discourse anaphor' and 'contrast'. He presents a detailed model of syntax---information-structure interaction and argues that this interaction takes place at the phase level, with a privileged role for the edge of the phase. Further, he investigates phenomena concerning the syntax of objects in Romance and Germanic - accusative A, p-movement, clitic doubling, scrambling, object shift - and shows that there are cross-linguistic correlations between syntactic configuration and specificity, independent of discourse connectedness. The volume ends with an extended analysis of the syntax of dislocations in Romance.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, etc

• Full title: Derivational Syntax for Information Structure
• Author: Luis Lopez
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780199557417
• ISBN: 0199557411
• ID: 04532955
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 491 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 157 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. February 2009

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