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| adam_text | SYNTACTIC ASPECTS
OF TOPIC AND COMMENT
ANDRE MEINUNGER
Zentrumfur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaji, Berlin
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY
AMSTERDAM / PHILADELPHIA
Table of contents
Acknowledgments ix
List of frequent abbrevations xi
Introduction: Some philosophical reflections 1
CHAPTER 1
Discourse dependent tree splitting 11
1 1 Word order and intonation 11
1 2 The encoding of sentence functional perspective 14
1 3 Vallduvi s tripartition 17
1 4 Topic-comment structures 18
141 Partee s proposal — Recursiveness in focus-background
splitting 18
142A formal account of topic-comment structures (Krifka
1991/92) 20
143 Two immediate precursors of the theory defended in this book 24
1431 Diesing s mapping hypothesis 24
1432 De Hoop s theory of weak and strong Case 31
144 Focus theory and focus projection 33
1 5 Summary 34
CHAPTER 2
The structure of the German VP 35
2 1 Configurational and non-configurational languages: The typological
classification of German 35
2 2 Lexical and functional categories 37
2 3 The base order: The projection of heads and arguments 39
231 Some assumptions about the syntactic encoding of argument
structure — a syntax for lexical decomposition grammar 39
vi TABLE OF CONTENTS
232 On deriving an argument hierarchy 43
2 4 What is the basic word order (in German)? 44
2 5 Focus projection as a diagnostic for basic word order 45
2 6 The strict word order hypothesis 48
2 7 Some parallelisms with experiencer verb constructions 51
2 8 The DAT ACC DAT/PP asymmetry 52
2 9 Short summary 59
CHAPTER 3
A trigger for scrambling 61
3 1 Scrambling and scrambling theories 61
32A survey of the semantic impact of scrambling-positions and
corresponding interpretations 64
321 Indefinites 66
322 Noun Phrases 74
323 Definites 76
324 Strong quantificational noun phrases 83
3 3 Overview 87
3 4- The common property of scrambled constituents: The [+Topic]
feature 88
3*4 1 What is a possible topic? 89
342 Anaphoric DPs are not automatically topics 91
3,4 3 A better account for atelicity than de Hoop s 93
3 5 Provisional summary 97
3 6 Agreement phrases as topic hosts 100
3 7 Summary 101
CHAPTER 4
Agr nodes as topic hosts 103
4 1 The proposal 103
4 2 On the relationship between case and verbal agreement 103
4 3 The there-are-no-agreement-projections hypothesis 106
-431 Tense and nominative 107
432 Aspect and accusative 108
433 For the independence of Agr heads I l l
4 4 Agr projections as topic hosts 114
441 The semantics of Agr 114
TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
442A parallel case: Catalan 115
4421 The status of clitic-doubling and the structure of the
Catalan VP 115
4422 Striking similarities between clitic-doubling and
scrambling 120
443 Some remarks on the computation of focus 127
4431 Selkirk s theory of focus projection 127
4432 Cinque s Null Theory , its problems and possible
applications 128
4433 The Null Hypothesis and its impact for string vacuous
scrambling 129
4434 Problems and speculations 131
4 5 The mapping 136
4 6 Problems with adjuncts 137
4 7 Speculations on A-movement crossing and the principle of hierarchy
preserving 140
4 8 Summary 156
CHAPTER 5
The typological chapter 157
5 1 Morphologically different cases for the direct object 158
5 2 Object agreement and topichood 168
5 3 Word order, there-be effects and deaccenting 174
5 4 Summary and problems 177
CHAPTER 6
Notes on extraction 179
6 1 An account of XP-deplacement and the case of
relative clause extraposition 180
6 2 The Generalized Specificity Condition 185
621 Was-fur and wieviel split 185
622 Quantifier split 189
623 W/i-extraction 190
624 Extraction from PP 191
625 The weakness of topic islands 192
6 3 Factive islands 194
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6 4 Relative clause extraposition 199
641 Relative clause extraposition and the validity of Ross
right roof constraint 199
642 Rightward movement, islandhood and the generalized
specificity condition 202
6421 The syntax of restrictive versus appositive relative
clauses 202
6422 The extraction behavior of restrictive and appositive
relative clauses in German 207
6423 Intermediate summary 211
6 5 Speculations over an explanation for the Generalized Specificity
Condition 212
• 651 Syntactic explanations 212
652A semantic proposal - 213
66A short summary 216
CHAPTER 7
Conclusions 221
References 225
Name index 239
Subject index 243
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