Discourse Configurational Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195088336 ISBN 13: 9780195088335

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Comprising eleven studies on languages with designated structural topic and focus positions, this volume includes an introduction surveying the empirical and theoretical problems involved in the description of this language type. Focusing on languages outside the traditional Indo-European group, the essays look at Chadic, Somali, Basque, Catalan, Old Romance, Greek, Hungarian, Finnish, Korean, and Quechua. The papers provide interesting new empirical data, as well as a variety of means and alternatives of representing them structurally. At the same time, they address important theoretical questions in the framework of generative theory. This is the first study to apply methods of comparative syntax to the study of topic and focus.

About this title

About the Author

Katalin E. Kiss is at Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Review

The proposals contained in the papers in this volume are bound to pave the way for subsequent analyses. Any practitioner of generative syntax seriously interested in cross-linguistic variation will need to consult them. * Linguistics *

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195088336
• ISBN 13: 9780195088335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Kiss Katalin É.