LINGUIST List 8.900

Wed Jun 18 1997

Books: Syntax

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <annlinguistlist.org>

 Susanne Winkler

 FOCUS AND SECONDARY PREDICATION

 1997. 23 x 15,5 cm. X, 481 pages. 
 Cloth DM 198,-/approx. US$ 141.00
 ISBN 3-11-015057-3
 Studies in Generative Grammar 43

 Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York


This monograph presents the results of a syntactic and focus-
theoretical investigation of secondary predication constructions. 
The syntactic analysis is couched in the principles and parameters
theory. The focus analysis addresses the question of the prosodic
realization of secondary predication constructions as well as their
focus projection capacities and compares them not only to each other,
but also to focus projection regularities in primary predications. 
This multilayered account shows that although the various types of 
secondary predication constructions have many aspects in common, they 
differ with respect to their distributional, binding-theoretic, and 
focus structure properties.


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