Topic, focus and bare nominals in Spanish

This study investigates the correlations between information structure and syntactic structure with particular reference to Spanish. After a detailed consideration of notions like "topic" and "focus" and several topicalizing and focusing mechanisms (such as Clitic left-dislocatio...

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Main Author: Casielles-Suarez, Eugenia
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1997
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9737510