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Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure : [papers presented at the Conference on "Contrastive Information Structure Analysis" ... at the University of Wuppertal in march 2008]
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Focus types and argument asymmetries: a cross-linguistic study in language production
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Abstract:
Skopeteas S, Fanselow G. Focus types and argument asymmetries: a cross-linguistic study in language production. In: Breul C, Göbbel E, eds. Contrastive information structure . Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins; 2010: 169-197. ; The effects of focus on syntax differ across languages: some languages encode focus in situ, while in other languages focus induces an array of constructions that deviate from the canonical configuration, such as non-canonical orders or clefts. This article presents semi-spontaneously produced data from American English, Québec French, Hungarian, and Georgian which shows that speakers of these languages select different structures under identical discourse conditions. The observed cross-linguistic differences are accounted for by means of grammatical properties of the object languages that hold independently of information structure. This account leads to the conclusion that a non-compositional mapping between information structural concepts and structural configurations is an unnecessary complication of the grammatical model.
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Keyword:
cleft sentences; contastive focus; ddc:410; focus movement; new information focus; production experiment
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URL: https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2095035/2275167 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-20950357 https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2095035
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