Focus structure in generative grammar : an integrated syntactic, semantic, and intonational approach /

The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in grea...

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Main Author: Breul, Carsten
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2004.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 68.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=148633