Focus structure in generative grammar : an integrated syntactic, semantic and intonational approach / Carsten Breul.

The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in grea...

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Main Author: Breul, Carsten
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins, 2004.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 68.
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