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This book considers the connection between information structure and syntax, exploring formal explanations to account for the distribution of discourse-based phenomena such as topic preposing and focus fronting across languages, with a particular focus on English and Spanish. It discusses issues such as word order and the diverse conditions under which types of topics and foci are licensed in different contexts. It shows the different behaviors of languages with respect to specific discourse-oriented operations to be the consequence of feature inheritance, which takes place in the different peripheries detected in the sentence. The book will be of interest to linguists and MA and PhD students of linguistics.
This book considers the connection between information structure and syntax, exploring formal explanations to account for the distribution of discourse-based phenomena such as topic preposing and focus fronting across languages, with a particular focus on English and Spanish. It discusses issues ...
About the author
Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández is Associate Professor at the English Language Department of the University of Seville, Spain, where he has taught courses on syntax, information structure, acquisition and translation for more than 25 years. His field of expertise is contrastive analysis of English and Spanish within generative grammar. He has published articles in journals such as Syntax, Studia Linguistica, Lingua, Ampersand, Linguistics, and The Linguistic Review, as well as a number of book chapters.
Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández is Associate Professor at the English Language Department of the University of Seville, Spain, where he has taught courses on syntax, information structure, acquisition and translation for more than 25 years. His field of expertise is contrastive analysis of English and...
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