Syntactic aspects of topic and comment /

The book focuses on the syntactic behavior of argument noun phrases depending on their discourse status. The main language of consideration is German, but it is shown that the observations can be carried over to other languages. The claim is that discourse-new arguments remain inside the VP where th...

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Main Author: Meinunger, André
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2000.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 38.
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