Syntax-Information Structure Interface
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A01=Eugenia Casielles-Suarez
Author_Eugenia Casielles-Suarez
Category=CF
clitic
Clitic Left Dislocation
Contrastive Focus
discourse pragmatics
Discourse Referent
Dislocated Phrases
dislocation
elements
eq_bestseller
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
focus articulation
Focus Background Structure
Focus Preposing
Full Pronouns
information structure analysis
initial
John Drinks
left
Left Dislocated Elements
Left Dislocated Phrases
left dislocation
Null Subject
position
Postverbal Subjects
Preposed Constituent
Preposed Element
preverbal
Preverbal Subject
Preverbal Subject Position
Resumptive Pronoun
Semantic Focus
sentence
Sentence Final Position
Sentence Initial Position
Spanish English subject position analysis
subject
syntactic typology
topical
Topical Elements
Topical Foci
Topical Phrases
topicalization structures
VP Internal Subject
Wh Phrases
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- ISBN 9780415970952
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the last decade, the notions of topic and focus have come to play an increasingly relevant role in theoretical linguistics. Although these notions are often taken for granted, they are still poorly understood. This study offers a detailed analysis of the precise definitions of these and related terms (theme, topic, background, given information, focus, contrast, etc.) as well as of their combination into information structures such as the topic-focus and background-focus articulations. It recommends pursuing a feature-based typology of topics and argues against a dual nature of focus (i.e. presentational vs. contrastive). Central questions addressed are the analysis of subjects in Spanish and English (DP vs NP and null vs. preverbal vs. postverbal) and the nature of constructions such as topicalization, left-dislocation, and focus preposing. Further, it is proposed that in Spanish information structure can be read off the syntax: while an overt DP in the preverbal specifier subject position is interpreted as the topic in a topic-focus articulation, one or more left-or right-dislocated phrases are interpreted as part of the background in background-focus/focus-background structures.
Eugenia Casielles-Suárez received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently teaches at Wayne State University.
