Exploring the focus-morphology interface: morpho-syntactic aspects of non prosodic focus : Selected Proceedings of the 2007 Mid American Linguistics Conference
Parafita Couto, Maria Del Carmen and Putnam, Mike (2008) Exploring the focus-morphology interface: morpho-syntactic aspects of non prosodic focus : Selected Proceedings of the 2007 Mid American Linguistics Conference. Preprint / Working Paper. University of Kansas.
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Abstract
This paper claims that a constraint-based theory (i.e, OT) can best account for the many manifestations of Focus in typologically diverse languages. We propose an interaction between Discourse Representation Theory (hereafter DRT) (Kamp, 1981; Kamp and Reyle, 1993) and Optimality Theory (OT) (Prince and Smolensky, 1993/2004) to best account for these facts, maintaining that constraint-ranking is the best way to achieve a descriptive and explanatorily adequate analysis of natural data. In particular, we provide a novel sketch of a theoretical account of natural languages that mark Focus morphologically but not prosodically
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Item type: Monograph(Preprint / Working Paper) ID code: 39419 Dates: DateEvent2008PublishedSubjects: Language and Literature > Modern European Languages
Language and Literature > Philology. LinguisticsDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > Spanish Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 26 Apr 2012 12:56 Last modified: 26 Oct 2024 00:09 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/39419