Contributions

  • Kiss, Katalin É. - Contributor

Publication

1995 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

98,250 words, Guess

Page Count

393 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing8649320
  • Goodreads4920154

Classifications

  • DDC415
  • LCCP298 .D57 1995

Description

Comprising eleven studies on languages with designated structural topic and focus positions, this volume includes an introduction surveying the empirical and theoretical problems involved in the description of this language type. Focusing on languages outside the traditional Indo-European group, the essays look at Chadic, Somali, Basque, Catalan, Old Romance, Greek, Hungarian, Finnish, Korean, and Quechua. The papers provide interesting new empirical data, as well as a variety of means and alternatives of representing them structurally. At the same time, they address important theoretical questions in the framework of generative theory. This is the first study to apply methods of comparative syntax to the study of topic and focus.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Oxford studies in comparative sytax

Other Editions

  • Discourse configurational languagesOxford University Press1995-01-01

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