Focus in Generative Grammar
Michael Rochemont
[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 4] 1986. ix, 221 pp.
Michael Rochemont
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Rochemont plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics
Articles
2013 Discourse new, focused, and given Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference, Brandtler, Johan, Valéria Molnár and Christer Platzack (eds.), pp. 199–228 | Article
Mandatory phrasal prominence on a constituent in English is often attributed to the presence of a focus interpretation for that constituent, be it focus as discourse new or as selection among discourse relevant alternatives. It is argued here that these two functions of focus should be empirically… read more
1997 Deriving Dependent Right Adjuncts in English Rightward Movement, Beermann, Dorothee, David LeBlanc and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), pp. 279–300 | Article
