Focus–background structure has taken center stage in much current theorizing about sentence prosody, syntax, and semantics. However, both the inventory of focus expressions found cross-linguistically and the interpretive consequences associated with each of these continue to be insufficiently described. This volume aims at providing new observations on the availability and the use of focus marking...
Series: Studies in Language Companion Series (Book 112)
Hardcover: 362 pages
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company (June 18, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9027205795
ISBN-13: 978-9027205797
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 9001957
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e languages. In doing so, it documents the plurality of research on focus in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian. Topics covered include constituent fronting and clefting, the position of subjects and focus particles, clitic doubling of objects, and information packaging in complex sentences. In addition, some contributions explore focus–background structure from acquisitional and diachronic angles, while others adopt a comparative perspective, studying differences between individual Romance and Germanic languages. Therefore, this volume is of interest to a broad audience within linguistics, including syntacticians, semanticists, and historical linguists.
