Neeleman, A;
Titov, E;
van de Koot, H;
Vermeulen, R;
(2009)
A syntactic typology of topic, focus and contrast.
In:
Alternatives to Cartography.
(pp. 15-51).
De Gruyter Mouton
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Abstract
In this paper we argue for a typology of various information-structural func- tions in terms of three privative features: [topic], [focus] and [contrast] (see also Vallduv ́ı and Vilkuna 1998, Molna ́r 2002, McCoy 2003, and Giusti 2006). Aboutness topics and contrastive topics share the feature [topic], new-information foci and contrastive foci share the feature [focus], and contrastive topics and contrastive foci share the feature [contrast]. This typology is supported by data from Dutch (where only contrastive ele- ments may undergo A’-scrambling), Japanese (where aboutness topics and contrastive topics must appear sentence-initially), and Russian (where the new-information foci and contrastive foci share the same underlying position). To the best of our knowledge, there are no generalizations over information-structural functions that do not share one of the features adopted here.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | A syntactic typology of topic, focus and contrast |
| ISBN-13: | 9783110206036 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110217124.15 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217124 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10134212 |
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