Configuring Topic and Focus in Russian Hardback
by Tracy Holloway King
Part of the Dissertations in Linguistics S. series
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This work examines word order. More accurately, it is the ordering of constituents that is discussed since prepositional phrases and most noun phrases form syntactic constituents and the encoding of topic and focus in Russian.
As has long been observed, word order in Russian encodes specific discourse information: with neutral intonation, topics precede discourse-neutral constituents which precede foci.
King extends this idea to show that word order encodes different types of topic and focus in a principled manner.
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- Pages:287 pages
- Publisher:Centre for the Study of Language & Information
- Publication Date:26/05/1995
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- ISBN:9781881526636
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:287 pages
- Publisher:Centre for the Study of Language & Information
- Publication Date:26/05/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9781881526636
