Aspects of the Grammar of Focus

A Minimalist View

von Przemyslaw Tajsner

400 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The book examines the aspects of focus within the recent minimalist paradigm. Focus is viewed here as a grammar’s response to the requirements of the systems external to (narrowly defined) language. Thus, the properties of focus are explored at the two interfaces: syntax-phonology and syntax-semantics. The book surveys some recent views on the interface and left-periphery status of focus. With respect to the semantics of focus, the book argues for its tripartite division into: information, non-exhaustive identification, and exhaustive identification. It further contains a proposal of the phase-based derivation of sentences featuring focus in English, and finally, offers an account of Polish, in which focus interestingly correlates with the phenomenon of scrambling.

• Reihe: Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
• ISBN: 9783631579558
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.07.2008
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Jacek Fisiak