Objects and Information Structure

Informationen zum Autor Mary Dalrymple is Professor of Syntax in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford. Klappentext A cross-linguistic study of how objects are affected by information structure. Zusammenfassung In many languages! the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb! or they remain unmarked. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how object marking is affected by information structure! the grammatical structuring of the utterance in accordance with context. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Syntactic assumptions; 3. Information structure in grammar; 4. Syntax and information structure; 5. Topicality and grammatical marking; 6. Topical marking of nonsubjects; 7. Topicality and DOM; 8. Primary and secondary objecthood and DOM; 9. Multiple objects and grammatical alignment; 10. Semantic features, topicality and grammaticalisation; 11. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Mary Dalrymple, Mary (Professor of Syntax Dalrymple, Mary Nikolaeva Dalrymple, Irina Nikolaeva
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521199858
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19985-8
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures