Configuring Topic and Focus in Russian

Name: Configuring Topic and Focus in Russian
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Tracy Holloway King
ISBN: 9781881526629

Tracy Holloway King

01/06/1995
Center For The Study Of Language And Information Publica Tion

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Couverture de Configuring Topic and Focus in Russian par Tracy Holloway King

Résumé

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.