The architecture of focus

by Molnár, Valéria Winkler, Susanne

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Title Statements

Full title :The architecture of focus / edited by Valéria Molnár, Susanne Winkler.

Summary

The Architecture of Focus offers the most precise and recent characterization of the notion of focus in linguistic theory. The volume contains brand-new and innovative papers that target the nature of focus and topic at the interfaces of the model of grammar. There are four main sections: (i) a general section, concerned with the basic theory of the interaction of focus and topic with the components of grammar; (ii) the representation of focus at the syntax-pragmatics interface concentrating on language comparison; (iii) the phonological representation of focus and topic and its relation to meaning; and (iv) the interaction of focus and topic at the semantics-pragmatics interface with an emphasis on the notion of contrast. Together the papers collected in this volume present a state-of-the-art account of the architecture of focus.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Mouton de Gruyter
Place of Publication:Berlin
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2006.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 617 pages :) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783110922011, 3110922010
oclc:on1331423541
LC Classification:P299.F63
Dewey Decimal:415

Pt. 1. Theoretical foundations of focus and information structure -- pt. 2. The representation of focus, topic and contrast at the syntax-pragmatics interface -- pt. 3. The phonological representation of focus, topic and contrast and its relation to meaning -- pt. 4. Focus-related constructions in different languages.

Subjects

Focus (Linguistics) Focus (Linguistique) Generative grammar Grammaire comparée et générale Grammaire générative Grammar, Comparative and general LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar … LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… Thema-Rhema-Gliederung