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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2000.
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| Series: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 38. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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 they are base generated. The hierarchy of argument projection is claimed to be fix within and across languages. With the major attention to direct objects it is then argued that discourse-old, here called topical noun phrases undergo raising to agreement projections. This movement can be realized diff. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (Discourse dependent DP (de- )placement), 1994/1995. EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027299185 9027299188 9781556199899 1556199899 1282163388 9781282163386 |
