The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus

The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9789027255525
ISBN-13 : 9027255520
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Book Synopsis The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus by : Liliana Sánchez

Download or read book The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus written by Liliana Sánchez and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an innovative analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua. It provides a minimalist account of the relationship between focus, topic, evidentiality and other left-peripheral features and sentence-internal constituents marked with suffixes that have been previously considered of a pragmatic nature. Intervention effects show that these relationships are also of a syntactic nature. The analysis is extended to morphological markers that appear on polarity sensitive items and wh-words. The book also provides a brief overview of the main characteristics of Quechua syntax as well as additional bibliographical information.


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