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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Topic and comment --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Topic and comment. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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In this volume, Luis López sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in Romance, the author shows that notions such as 'topic' and 'focus', as usually defined, yield no predictions and proposes instead a feature system based on the notions 'discourse anaphor' and 'contrast'. He presents a detailed model of syntax---information-structure interaction and argues that this interaction takes place at the phase level, with a privileged role for the edge of the phase. Further, he investigates phenomena concerning the syntax of objects in Romance and Germanic - accusative A, p-movement, clitic doubling, scrambling, object shift - and shows that there are cross-linguistic correlations between syntactic configuration and specificity, independent of discourse connectedness. The volume ends with an extended analysis of the syntax of dislocations in Romance.

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Syntax --- Topic and comment --- Syntax. --- Topic and comment. --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics). --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment --- Grammaire à structure de phrase --- Minimalisme (linguistique) --- Grammaire à structure de phrase

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The existing syntactic accounts of null arguments typically rely either on the specific licensing conditions for different types of empty categories such as pro and (topic-)bound variables, or else on different kinds of ellipsis. In trying to address the radical argument drop character of Catalan Sign Language (LSC), this paper critically reassesses the two main trends in the analysis of this phenomenon in East Asian languages and their extensions to American Sign Language (ASL). Both hybrid and uniform approaches to empty arguments turn out to be unable to account for the non-negligibl

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Contrastive linguistics. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Syntax. --- Topic and comment. --- Focus (Linguistics). --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment. --- Contrastive linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Syntax --- Topic and comment --- Language and languages --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate --- Discourse analysis --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work of Vilém Mathesius, while Subject has traditionally been seen as just a syntactic entity. More recently two related perspectives on these concepts have attracted linguists' attention: the formal criteria for their recognition and the relations between the two concepts. Using the systemic functional model as their point of departure, the papers in the present volume consider the two notions in a wider context by relating them to the interpersonal and textual metafunctions of language.

801.56 --- #KVHA:Linguistiek; Engels --- #KVHA:Semantiek; Engels --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Discourse analysis --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Analyse du discours --- Sujet et prédicat --- Topic and comment --- Discourse analysis. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment. --- Linguistics. --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Subject and predicate --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Topic and comment.

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This monograph deals with the 'aboutness' of language. First, the sense in which language 'is about' or 'reflects' both reality and a mental picture of reality is turned into a cornerstone of a reflectionist or 'Speculative Grammarian' semantics and pragmatics. Second, the 'Speculative Grammar' idea is made concrete in a logico-linguistic account of the way language 'is about' the whole of reality as well as about certain fractions of it. Third, the reflectionist perspective is used for a universalist account of the way speech acts 'are about' their subjects, topics, and foci.

Language and languages --- Speculative grammar. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Logic. --- Modistic grammar --- Latin language, Medieval and modern --- Scholasticism --- Argumentation --- Deduction (Logic) --- Deductive logic --- Dialectic (Logic) --- Logic, Deductive --- Intellect --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Science --- Reasoning --- Thought and thinking --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Philosophy. --- Topic and comment. --- Grammar --- Methodology --- Subject and predicate --- Syntax --- Language and languages - Philosophy --- Speculative grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment --- Logic