The Syntax-Information Structure Interface: Evidence from Spanish and English

ISBN-13: 9780415970952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 248 str.

Eugenia Casielles-Suarez

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Topics Chapter 3: Topical Phrases and Topicalizing Constructions Chapter 4: Bare Nominals Chapter 5: Focus Chapter 6: Focus Preposing Chapter 7: Information Structure and Syntactic Structure References Index

O autorze

Eugenia Casielles-Suárez received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently teaches at Wayne State University.