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Publication details [#4231]

Hajičová, Eva and Petr Sgall. 1975. Topic and focus in transformational grammar. Papers in Linguistics 8 (1-2) : 3–58.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

generative semantics | interpretive semantics | topic vs. focus | transformational generative grammar

Annotation

A discussion of the way in which topic (theme) and focus (comment, rheme) have been treated in transformational grammar, followed by the proposal of a new framework and a presentation of the way in which it could settle some of the major points of debate between interpretive and generative semantics.