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Full Description
The book examines the aspects of focus within the recent minimalist paradigm. Focus is viewed here as a grammar's response to the requirements of the systems external to (narrowly defined) language. Thus, the properties of focus are explored at the two interfaces: syntax-phonology and syntax-semantics. The book surveys some recent views on the interface and left-periphery status of focus. With respect to the semantics of focus, the book argues for its tripartite division into: information, non-exhaustive identification, and exhaustive identification. It further contains a proposal of the phase-based derivation of sentences featuring focus in English, and finally, offers an account of Polish, in which focus interestingly correlates with the phenomenon of scrambling.
Contents
Contents: Focus - The Minimalist Program - Syntax - Grammar - Nuclear Stress - Syntax-phonology Interface - Syntax-semantics Interface - Left-periphery - Topic - Phases - Derivation by Phases - Scrambling - Spell Out - Cleft Sentences - Emphatic Stress - Probe-goal - Agree - Interface Condition - Last Resort - Feature Checking - Tropicalization - Functional Heads - Information Structure.
