Mary Dalrymple, Irina Nikolaeva

Objects and Information Structure

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Produktbeschreibung

A cross-linguistic study of how objects are affected by information structure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9781107627376
• ISBN-10: 1107627370
• Artikelnr.: 40951837

Autorenporträt

Mary Dalrymple is Professor of Syntax in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Syntactic assumptions
3. Information structure in grammar
4. Syntax and information structure
5. Topicality and grammatical marking
6. Topical marking of nonsubjects
7. Topicality and DOM
8. Primary and secondary objecthood and DOM
9. Multiple objects and grammatical alignment
10. Semantic features, topicality and grammaticalisation
11. Conclusion.