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This volume brings together exciting research on the relationship between syntax and information structure, developing an interface-based approach.
List of contents
1. Introduction Ivona Küerová and Ad Neeleman; Part I. The Architecture of Grammar and the Primitives of Information Structure: 2. Predicate integration: phrase structure or argument structure? Daniel Büring; 3. Wh-intonation and information structure in South Kyeongsang Korean and Tokyo Japanese Hyun Kyung Hwang; 4. Grammatical marking of givenness Ivona Küerová; 5. Interface configurations: identificational focus and the flexibility of syntax Balázs Surányi; 6. Focus and givenness: a unified approach Michael Wagner; 7. The locality of focusing and the coherence of anaphors Edwin Williams; Part II. Exploring the Interfaces: Case Studies: 8. NP ellipsis without focus movement/projections: the role of classifiers Artemis Alexiadou and Kirsten Gengel; 9. Focus in Greek wh-questions Theodora Alexopoulou and Mary Baltazani; 10. Against FocusP: arguments from Zulu Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Laura J. Downing; 11. Scrambling as formal movement Gisbert Fanselow; 12. Left peripheral arguments and discourse interface strategies in Yucatec Maya Stavros Skopeteas and Elisabeth Verhoeven; References.
About the author
Ivona Kučerová is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at McMaster University, Ontario. She specialises in the syntax-semantics and the semantics-morphology interface.Ad Neeleman is Professor of Linguistics at University College London. His research focuses on the theory of syntax and the interaction between syntax and syntax-external systems. He has published some forty research papers and is the author of Flexible Syntax (1999) with Fred Weerman and Beyond Morphology (2004) with Peter Ackema.
Summary
This volume brings together exciting work on the relationship between syntax and information structure. It is aimed at specialists in information structure, as well as students and linguists in related fields who want to familiarise themselves with current issues in this fascinating area of research.
