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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"topic and focus"”.
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Grammatical Effects of Topic and Focus Information
As for focus information, I show that pitch accent is responsible for focus interpretation, with apparent syntactic movement playing no significant role for focus interpretation. Sentential stress patterns and their implications for focus interpretation are examined. In particular, this …
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Human population control and environmental law
… will examine the link between population growth and environmental problems and also statistics concerning human numbers. The actual term Population Law will be discussed and definitions provided to assess its scope and relevance to environmental law. The development of human population growth as …
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Topics in Marma (မာရမာ)
… Marma language is closely related to Rakhine and Burmese, and many lexical items are almost identical to those in Burmese and Rakhine, “although Marma exhibits a more conservative phonological profile than Burmese in the grammatical particles” Keisuke (2011). This research study analyzed …
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The Sinitic Nominal Phrase Structure: A Minimalist Perspective
… numerals, classifiers, possessives, adjectives, and nouns, and functional elements, such as plural/collective markers, force particles, and modification markers. It is argued that the syntactic structure of the nominal phrase is universal regardless of the presence of lexical items which realise …
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TOPICS IN HAKHA LAI NOMINAL MARKING
This dissertation investigates the formal and functional properties of discourse deictics, morphemes which provide information to help interlocutors identify nominals, mark their discourse status, and highlight them for pragmatic purposes. Discourse deictics remain understudied, despite serving …
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Information Structure and Constituent Order in EIMI + Participle (Periphrasis) Constructions: A Test Case in the Pseudepigrapha and Apostolic Fathers
… on a corpus of texts from the Apostolic Fathers and Pseudepigrapha. Levinsohn argues that in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts the constituent order of all such constructions can be described by the same information structure (IS) principles, regardless of whether they are periphrastic or not, …
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Word Order, Focus, and Clause Linking in Greek Tragic Poetry
… of the main sentence elements (subject, verb, and object) within the clause, the emphatic position at the start of the clause, and the structure of inter-clausal linking. It is argued that these three features, usually considered separately, are interdependent, and that intra-clausal word order …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… Federation. The theoretical approach is low-key and eclectic; linguistic phenomena are described in a manner which is, in so far as it is possible, theory-neutral, although where a branch of linguistic theory provides tools which allow clear and simple description it is used without hesitation. …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… Federation. The theoretical approach is low-key and eclectic; linguistic phenomena are described in a manner which is, in so far as it is possible, theory-neutral, although where a branch of linguistic theory provides tools which allow clear and simple description it is used without hesitation. …