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Publication details [#7748]

Prince, Ellen F. 1981. Topicalization, focus-movement, and Yiddish-movement: A pragmatic differentiation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 7 : 249–264.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

Topicalization, focus-movement and Yiddish-movement are all said to crucially involve the marking of old/new information. Yet they have to be differentiated on pragmatic grounds.