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Title: Configuring Topic and Focus in Russian
Author: Tracy Holloway King
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Homepage: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking
Degree Awarded: Stanford University , Department of Linguistics
Degree Date: In Progress
Linguistic Subfield(s): Syntax
Subject Language(s): Russian
Director(s): Peter Sells
Eve V. Clark
Thomas Wasow
Abstract:

This dissertation examines word order and the encoding of topic and focus in Russian. I argue that certain phrase structure positions license discourse functions, and that different types of topic and focus have different syntactic and phonological encodings. The interaction between phrase structure, discourse functions, and grammatical relations in Lexical Functional Grammar is investigated in light of this analysis.
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