Issues in the Left Periphery: A Typological Approach to Topic and Focus Constructions Contributor(s): Ermisch, Sonja (Author) |
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ISBN: 082049934X ISBN-13: 9780820499345 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $41.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2007 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous |
Dewey: 415 |
LCCN: 2007387849 |
Series: European University Studies: Series 21, Linguistics |
Physical Information: 182 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The study aims at examining current linguistic theories on information structure such as Rizzi's cartographic approach and modifications thereof in the light of empirical data. The author provides a preliminary overview on topic and focus constructions in a number of mostly European languages and then concentrates on two languages from West Africa, Akan and Ewe, in which focussed and topicalized constituents are overtly marked. On the basis of the data from these African languages the author modifies the preliminary topic and focus typology, discusses cases which cannot be accounted for by the theoretical assumptions put forward in the cartographic approach and challenges the interchange-ability of the concepts of - concord and - agreement." |