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Focus in Generative Grammar

By: Michael Shaun Rochemont

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The topic of this book is the notion of focus and its linguistic characterization. The main thesis is that focus has a uniform grammatical identification only as a syntactic element with in English at least a certain systematic phonological interpretation and presumably universally a range of semantic interpretations. In broad respects, the framework within this investigation is conducted is that of Chomsky & Lasnik (1977) and the subsequent Government and Binding framework. After considering defining the location of prominence in a focused phrase in terms of constituent structure, the author argues that an argument structure approach to the focus phrase/prominence relation is more promising. This is then exemplified in analyses of cleft focus and constructional focus.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027227918

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A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

By: Michael Rochemont

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A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

By: Michael Rochemont

This book defends in part a particular elaboration of the stylistic rule component of the grammatical model first presented in Chomsky and Lasnik (1977). It is argued that stylistic rules share a number of fundamental properties, most significantly that they characterize noncanonical focusing constructions and that they make no contribution to the logical forms (LFs) of sentences they apply to in particular regard to truth conditional interpretation. The work includes a discussion of Auxiliary Inversion constructions in English, arguing that these constructions also sometimes involve focusing, though not stylistic. An approach to the interpretation of these sentences is suggested, employing a concept of interpretative templates: rules relating S-structure and LF for which some independent evidence is suggested.

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Routledge

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1134743149

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A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English

By: Michael Rochemont

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Taylor & Francis

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0415715857

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Focus in Generative Grammar

Focus in Generative Grammar

A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English

A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English

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