Search Results for: Aspects Of The Grammar Of Focus

The grammar of focus has been studied in generative grammar from its inception. It has been the subject of intense, detailed cross-linguistic investigation for

The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the s

The book examines the aspects of focus within the recent minimalist paradigm. Focus is viewed here as a grammar's response to the requirements of the systems ex

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

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, br