Author: Elodie Winckel
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961104778
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This book examines extractions out of the subject, which is traditionally considered to be an island for extraction. There is a debate among linguists regarding whether the “subject island constraint” is a syntactic phenomenon or an illusion caused by cognitive or pragmatic factors. The book focusses on French, that provides an interesting case study because it allows certain extractions out of the subject despite not being a typical null-subject language. The book takes a discourse-based approach and introduces the “Focus-Background Conflict” constraint, which posits that a focused element cannot be part of a backgrounded constituent due to a pragmatic contradiction. The major novelty of this proposal is that it predicts a distinction between extractions out of the subject in focalizing and non-focalizing constructions. The central contribution of this book is to offer the detailed results of a series of empirical studies (corpus studies and experiments) on extractions out of the subject is French. These studies offer evidence for the possibility of extraction out of the subject in French. But they also reveal a clear distinction between constructions. While extractions out of the subject are common and highly acceptable in relative clauses, this is not the case for interrogatives and clefts. Finally, the book proposes a Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) analysis of subject islands. It demonstrates the interaction between information structure and syntax using a representation of information structure based on Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS).
French subject islands
Author: Elodie Winckel
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961104778
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This book examines extractions out of the subject, which is traditionally considered to be an island for extraction. There is a debate among linguists regarding whether the “subject island constraint” is a syntactic phenomenon or an illusion caused by cognitive or pragmatic factors. The book focusses on French, that provides an interesting case study because it allows certain extractions out of the subject despite not being a typical null-subject language. The book takes a discourse-based approach and introduces the “Focus-Background Conflict” constraint, which posits that a focused element cannot be part of a backgrounded constituent due to a pragmatic contradiction. The major novelty of this proposal is that it predicts a distinction between extractions out of the subject in focalizing and non-focalizing constructions. The central contribution of this book is to offer the detailed results of a series of empirical studies (corpus studies and experiments) on extractions out of the subject is French. These studies offer evidence for the possibility of extraction out of the subject in French. But they also reveal a clear distinction between constructions. While extractions out of the subject are common and highly acceptable in relative clauses, this is not the case for interrogatives and clefts. Finally, the book proposes a Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) analysis of subject islands. It demonstrates the interaction between information structure and syntax using a representation of information structure based on Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS).
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961104778
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This book examines extractions out of the subject, which is traditionally considered to be an island for extraction. There is a debate among linguists regarding whether the “subject island constraint” is a syntactic phenomenon or an illusion caused by cognitive or pragmatic factors. The book focusses on French, that provides an interesting case study because it allows certain extractions out of the subject despite not being a typical null-subject language. The book takes a discourse-based approach and introduces the “Focus-Background Conflict” constraint, which posits that a focused element cannot be part of a backgrounded constituent due to a pragmatic contradiction. The major novelty of this proposal is that it predicts a distinction between extractions out of the subject in focalizing and non-focalizing constructions. The central contribution of this book is to offer the detailed results of a series of empirical studies (corpus studies and experiments) on extractions out of the subject is French. These studies offer evidence for the possibility of extraction out of the subject in French. But they also reveal a clear distinction between constructions. While extractions out of the subject are common and highly acceptable in relative clauses, this is not the case for interrogatives and clefts. Finally, the book proposes a Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) analysis of subject islands. It demonstrates the interaction between information structure and syntax using a representation of information structure based on Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS).
The History of Canada: Canada under French rule
Author: William Kingsford
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Hazell's Annual
The Historians' History of the World: France, 1715-1815
Author: Henry Smith Williams
Publisher:
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Senate documents
The New Zealand Official Year-book
Author: New Zealand. Department of Statistics
Publisher:
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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Publisher:
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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Canada, Statistical Abstract and Record
Statistical Abstract and Record
Author: Canada. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
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The Historians' History of the World
Author: Henry Smith Williams
Publisher:
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Parliamentary Debates
Author: Australia. Parliament
Publisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
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Publisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
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