Discourse Configurational Languages

Name: Discourse Configurational Languages
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195088342
Price: 23550 KES
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ISBN: 9780195088342

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax

ISBN-10 0195088344

ISBN-13 9780195088342

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 16th, 1995

Print length 400 Pages

Weight 551 grams

Dimensions 23.50 x 15.50 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: Grammar, syntax & morphology

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This volume brings together twelve previously unpublished case studies of languages in which either topic and focus (or both) are configurationally encoded, i.e. languages in which those two notions are controlled by the syntactic structure of the language, if at all. Taken together, the papers characterize the wide range of variation in this area of syntax.

Comprising eleven studies on languages with designated structural topic and focus positions, this volume includes an introduction surveying the empirical and theoretical problems involved in the description of this language type. Focusing on languages outside the traditional Indo-European group, the essays look at Chadic, Somali, Basque, Catalan, Old Romance, Greek, Hungarian, Finnish, Korean, and Quechua. The papers provide interesting new empirical data, as well as a variety of means and alternatives of representing them structurally. At the same time, they address important theoretical questions in the framework of generative theory. This is the first study to apply methods of comparative syntax to the study of topic and focus.

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