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Focus and secondary predication / by Susanne Winkler

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Winkler, Susanne, 1960-
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Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.
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1 online resource (x, 481 pages) : illustrations
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1. Introduction -- 1. Syntactic focus theory and the phenomenon of secondary predication -- 2. Roadmap -- 2. Syntactic representation of secondary predications -- 1. The small clause analysis -- 1.1. The theoretical program -- 1.2. Stowell�s dilemma: problems with the ungoverned status of PRO -- 1.3. Alternative small clause proposals -- 1.4. Hoekstra�s (1988) generalization of the small clause analysis to resultatives -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 2. The predication theory analysis -- 2.1. Williams (1980): the theory of predication, 2.2. Williams� (1983) arguments against small clauses2.3. Conclusion -- 3. Distributional syntax of secondary predications -- 3.1. Rothstein�s (1985) elaboration of the predication theory -- 3.2. Culicover & Wilkins (1984, 1986): VP-internal representation of depictives -- 3.3. McNulty (1988): modifications of Rothstein�s analysis -- 3.4. Roberts (1988): the subject in VP hypothesis -- 4. Defending a complex predicate analysis -- 4.1. Larson�s (1988) complex predicate analysis -- 4.2. Modification of Larson�s proposal, 4.3. Theta-theoretical considerations5. Conclusion -- 3. Focus structure in a principle-based theory of grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Focus as a syntactic feature: a historical development -- 2.1. The syntactic approach -- 2.2. The semantic-pragmatic approach -- 2.3. Focus as new information -- 2.4. The focus structure approach -- 2.5. Conclusion -- 3. The modularity of intonational models and the theory of focus -- 3.1. Culicover & Rochemont (1983): a modular NSR-based account -- 3.2. Gussenhoven (1983): focus domain formation replacing the NSR, 3.3. Selkirk (1984): a pitch-accent-first model3.4. Rochemont (1986): an elaborated pitch-accent-first model -- 3.5. The concept of argument structure in Selkirk�s and Rochemont�s focus theories -- 3.6. Excursion: Cinque�s (1993) revival of the syntactic approach -- 4. Conclusion -- 4. Focus theory and theta-saturation theory as methods of licensing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The intonational model -- 3. The motivation of the intonational model -- 3.1. WH-questions are not an exception to the DFA -- 3.2. Focus assignment at D-structure, and 3.3. Focus assignment and adjuncts3.4. Licensing, focus, and the argument-adjunct asymmetry in a derivational approach -- 4. A generalization of the focus licensing principles -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The licensing theory of theta-saturation and argument structure -- 4.3. Focus licensing principles revisited -- 5. Conclusion -- 5. Pitch extraction analysis of secondary predications: experimental data -- 1. Introduction and experimental design -- 2. Pitch extraction analysis of resultatives and depictives -- 2.1. Transitive AP resultatives
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9783110815214 (electronic bk.)
3110815214 (electronic bk.)
3110150573
9783110150575
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Tübingen, 1994.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-464) and index.
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