Topic, Focus, and Syntactic Representations (2002)
| Venue: | In L. Mikkelsen and C. Potts (Eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL 21 |
| Citations: | 3 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Heycock02topic,focus,,
author = {Caroline Heycock and Anthony Kroch},
title = {Topic, Focus, and Syntactic Representations},
booktitle = {In L. Mikkelsen and C. Potts (Eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL 21},
year = {2002},
pages = {101--125},
publisher = {Cascadilla Press}
}
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Abstract
this paper we will indicate briefly what is at issue, discuss in passing some recent contributions to understanding the problem, and then concentrate on one aspect that we believe is essential to understanding what is happening: the information structure of such sentences. This aspect of specificational sentences was argued to be important in Heycock and Kroch 1999, but only partially integrated into the analysis presented there; in this paper we attempt to go further in developing an account in which the role of information structure is central
