Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 221 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 430 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 221 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 430 g
Reihe: Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis
ISBN: 978-90-272-2791-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
The topic of this book is the notion of ‘focus’ and its linguistic characterization. The main thesis is that focus has a uniform grammatical identification only as a syntactic element with – in English at least – a certain systematic phonological interpretation and – presumably universally – a range of semantic interpretations. In broad respects, the framework within this investigation is conducted is that of Chomsky & Lasnik (1977) and the subsequent Government and Binding framework. After considering defining the location of prominence in a focused phrase in terms of constituent structure, the author argues that an argument structure approach to the focus phrase/prominence relation is more promising. This is then exemplified in analyses of cleft focus and constructional focus.
