Topic, Focus, and Configurationality

Topic, Focus, and Configurationality
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 357
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ISBN-10 : 9789027227249
ISBN-13 : 9027227241
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Download or read book Topic, Focus, and Configurationality written by Werner Abraham and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some fundamental questions regarding sentence structure in linguistics concern whether all languages, at some level of abstraction, have the same structure, and what are the basic categories with which to describe sentence structure. The contributors of this volume are specialized in two quite different languages: Hungarian and German. Of the German papers three are mainly about focus (Abraham, Jacobs, and Stechow-Uhman), whereas the remaining ones (Haider and Scherpenisse) are mainly about V-second. The Hungarian papers are all about focus, of which those of Kálman, Kiefer, Marácz, and De Mey-Marácz are about focussing in the stricter sense. Hunyadi, Kenesei and É. Kiss focus on the pre-verbal area in general and the interpretation of operators in Hungarian in particular. The remaining papers (Horvath, Komlósy, and Szabolczi) are on the position of the PRE-V, the position immediately after the finite verb.


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