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The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
Johannes Mursell
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 268] 2021
► pp. 7–52

Chapter 2
Theoretical background

Article outline
  • 2.1Introduction
  • 2.2The general architecture
    • 2.2.1Syntactic fundamentals
    • 2.2.2Agreement
    • 2.2.3Syntax without information structure
  • 2.3Syntactic encoding of information structure
    • 2.3.1The distribution of information-structural features
    • 2.3.2Combining constituents with information-structural features
    • 2.3.3Focus Projection
    • 2.3.4The meaning of focus
  • 2.4Information-structural projections in the periphery
    • 2.4.1Information structure in the CP
    • 2.4.2Information structure in the vP
    • 2.4.3Different periphery equals different meaning
  • 2.5Feature inheritance and Strong Uniformity
    • 2.5.1Known phenomena
  • 2.6Summary and conclusion
  • Notes