Search Results for: Focus Structure In Generative Grammar

The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the s

The topic of this book is the notion of focus and its linguistic characterization. The main thesis is that focus has a uniform grammatical identification only a

Covering linguistic research on empty categories over more than three decades, this monograph presents the result of an in-depth syntactic and focus-theoretical

The grammar of focus has been studied in generative grammar from its inception. It has been the subject of intense, detailed cross-linguistic investigation for

Develops a new theory of focus structure, exploring the role of focusing in natural language sentence.