TY  - BOOK
AU  - Przemyslaw Tajsner
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Aspects of the Grammar of Focus
T2  - A Minimalist View
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1105354
N2  - 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.
KW  - Englisch, Syntax, Funktionale Grammatik, The Minimalist Program, Syntax-phonology interface, Syntax-semantics interface, Minimalist program (Linguistik)
LA  - English
ER  -