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1 online resource (356 pages) |
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TOPIC, FOCUS, AND CONFIGURATIONALITY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; WORD ORDER IN THE MIDDLE FIELD OF THE GERMAN SENTENCE; CONFIGURATIONALITY IN DISGUISE: WORD ORDER AND THE V-2 PROPERTY; REMARKSON THE CONFIGURATIONALITY-ISSUE; THE EXPRESSION OF LOGICAL SCOPE IN HUNGARIAN; THE SYNTAX OF FOCUS AND ADVERBIALS IN GERMAN; HOCUS, FOCUS, AND VERB TYPES IN HUNGARIAN INFINITIVECONSTRUCTIONS; ON THE LOGIC OF WORD ORDER IN HUNGARIAN; EPISTEMIC POSSIBILITY AND FOCUS; THE ORDER AND SCOPE OF OPERATORS IN THE HUNGARIAN SENTENCE; FOCUSSING ON FOCUS IN HUNGARIAN |
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DRESSED OR NAKED: THE CASE OF THE PP IN HUNGARIANON QUESTION SENTENCES IN HUNGARIAN; TOPIC, THEME AND THE GERMAN INITIAL FIELD; SOME REMARKS ON FOCUS PROJECTION; FROM THE DEFINITENESS EFFECT TO LEXICAL INTEGRITY |
| Summary |
Some fundamental questions regarding sentence structure in linguistics concern whether all languages, at some level of abstraction, have the same structure, and what are the basic categories with which to describe sentence structure. The contributors of this volume are specialized in two quite different languages: Hungarian and German. Of the German papers three are mainly about focus (Abraham, Jacobs, and Stechow-Uhman), whereas the remaining ones (Haider and Scherpenisse) are mainly about V-second. The Hungarian papers are all about focus, of which those of Kálman, Kiefer, Marácz, and De Mey |
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Print version record |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses
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Generative grammar -- Congresses
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German language -- Syntax -- Congresses
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Hungarian language -- Syntax -- Congresses
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Generative grammar
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German language -- Syntax
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Hungarian language -- Syntax
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Meij, Sjaak de
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| ISBN |
9789027282491 |
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9027282498 |
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1283234378 |
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9781283234375 |
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