A derivational syntax for information structure 1st Edition by Luis López ISBN 0199557403 9780199557400

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ISBN 10: 0199557403

ISBN 13: 9780199557400

Author: Luis López 

Table of contents: 

1 Introduction
1.1 The theoretical problem: phases and information structure
1.2 Brief description of the database
1.2.1 Clitic left dislocation and hanging topics
1.2.2 Clitic right dislocation
1.2.3 Focus fronting
1.2.4 P-movement, scrambling, and object shift
1.2.5 Accusative A
1.2.6 Clitic doubling
1.3 Assumptions
1.4 Sketch of the analyses and theoretical proposals
1.5 Conventions for glosses and translations
2 Information structure
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Deconstructing Topic, Focus, and Contrastive Focus
2.2.1 Topic
2.2.2 Focus
2.2.3 [+a] and [+c]2.3 Dislocations
2.3.1 Introduction
2.3.2 Locality
2.3.3 Contrast
2.3.4 Discourse structure
2.3.5 Links and tails
2.3.6 Summary
2.4 Focus, high and low
2.4.1 Introduction
2.4.2 Are there low contrastive foci?
2.4.3 Are there mid-level contrasts?
2.4.4 Are there high non-contrastive foci?
2.4.5 Exhaustive focus
2.5 Consequences
2.5.1 Introduction
2.5.2 Stressed pronouns
2.5.3 Answers to D-linked questions
2.5.4 Focus and Topic as syntactic categories
2.5.5 HTLD
2.6 From stress to focus?
2.6.1 Red convertibles
2.6.2 Focus, the Nuclear Stress Rule (NSR), and Stress Shift
2.7 Conclusion
3 The syntax of dislocations and focus fronting
3.1 Introduction
3.2 CLRD
3.2.1 The position of CLRD
3.2.2 The structure of the clitic
3.2.3 Assignment of [+a]3.2.4 Order
3.2.5 Interim conclusions
3.3 Movement to Spec,Fin
3.3.1 Split CP
3.3.2 Spec,Fin as landing site
3.3.3 Multiple specifiers and the LCA
3.3.4 Why Spec,Fin?
3.4 CLLD
3.4.1 Assignment of [+c]3.4.2 Assignment of [+a]3.5 FF and wh-movement
3.6 Co-occurrence restrictions without X’-theory
3.7 Dislocated subjects
3.7.1 Introduction
3.7.2 The SVO order
3.7.3 Right dislocated subjects
3.8 Left periphery: lush or sparse? The case of Finnish
3.8.1 The difference with Catalan
3.8.2 Alternatives within a TopP/FocP framework
3.8.3 One final look at Finnish objects and the feature [+a]3.9 Conclusions
4 The derivation of information structure
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Derivational assignment of [±a] and [±c]4.2.1 Sub-extraction and feature conservation
4.2.2 Some derivations in detail
4.2.3 Improper movement
4.3 Criterial Freezing
4.4 Derivations and representations
4.5 Conclusions
5 Moving objects
5.1 Introduction: [+a] and [+spec]5.2 P-movement
5.2.1 P-movement: empirical problems
5.2.2 P-movement in Spanish
5.2.3 CLRD and p-movement
5.2.4 Is p-movement prosodic movement?
5.2.5 P-movement in Catalan and Italian
5.3 Accusative A
5.4 Clitic Doubling in Rioplatense
5.5 The syntax of specificity
5.6 Scrambling and object shift
5.7 Conclusions
6 Dislocation debates
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Movement or base-generation of dislocates
6.2.1 CLLD and CLRD move, HTLD does not
6.2.2 CLLD does not move: Part I
6.2.3 CLLD does not move, Part II: epithets
6.2.4 LF movement of the clitic (as an operator)
6.2.5 Everything moves
6.3 What triggers movement?
6.3.1 Attract/Pied-pipe or Move?

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