TY - BOOK ID - 17703951 TI - Focus in generative grammar PY - 1986 VL - v. 4 SN - 9027227918 1283092999 9027286337 9786613092991 9789027286338 9789027227911 PB - Amsterdam Benjamins DB - UniCat KW - Generative grammar. KW - Grammar KW - Generative grammar KW - 801.56 KW - 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek KW - Syntaxis. Semantiek KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Grammar, Generative KW - Grammar, Transformational KW - Grammar, Transformational generative KW - Transformational generative grammar KW - Transformational grammar KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Derivation KW - Grammaire générative UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17703951 AB - The topic of this book is the notion of 'focus' and its linguistic characterization. The main thesis is that focus has a uniform grammatical identification only as a syntactic element with - in English at least - a certain systematic phonological interpretation and - presumably universally - a range of semantic interpretations. In broad respects, the framework within this investigation is conducted is that of Chomsky & Lasnik (1977) and the subsequent Government and Binding framework. After considering defining the location of prominence in a focused phrase in terms of constituent structure, t ER -