{"product_id":"a-derivational-syntax-for-information-structure-oxford-studies-in-theoretical-linguistics-0199557403","title":"A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0199557403\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e L\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, Luis López sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in Romance, the author shows that notions such as 'topic' and 'focus', as usually defined, yield no predictions and proposes instead a feature system based on the notions 'discourse anaphor' and 'contrast'. He presents a detailed model of syntax---information-structure interaction and argues that this interaction takes place at the phase level, with a privileged role for the edge of the phase. Further, he investigates phenomena concerning the syntax of objects in Romance and Germanic - accusative A, p-movement, clitic doubling, scrambling, object shift - and shows that there are cross-linguistic correlations between syntactic configuration and specificity, independent of discourse connectedness. The volume ends with an extended analysis of the syntax of dislocations in Romance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676051046688,"sku":"NEW0199557403","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61MLNy6fiRL.jpg?v=1779232688","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/a-derivational-syntax-for-information-structure-oxford-studies-in-theoretical-linguistics-0199557403","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}