Focus Linguistics Generative Grammar (1 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Focus is aconcept in linguistic theory that deals with how information in onephrase relates to information that has come before. Focus has beenanalyzed in a variety of ways by linguists. Historically, there havebeen two main approaches to focus the generative approach and thefunctional approach. In the generative approach, the term focus is usedto refer to words or expressions that are either prosodically orsyntactically prominent, generally because they introduce 'new'information. In the functional approach, the term focus is used to referto words or expressions that establish coherence in the text orconversation. Although most articles in linguistic theory on focus aredevoted to its effects in English, there is also extensive research onfocus not only in topic-prominent languages such as Korean and Japanesebut also in languages such as Hungarian, Italian and Russian.…