Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking

Based on six detailed case studies of languages in which focus is marked morphosyntactically, we propose a novel formal theory of focus marking, which can capture these as well as the familiar English-type prosodic focus marking. Special attention is paid to the patterns of focus syncretism, that is...

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Autores principales: Assmann, Muriel, Büring, Daniel, Jordanoska, Izabela, Prüller, Max
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10643371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37969619
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09567-4
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description Based on six detailed case studies of languages in which focus is marked morphosyntactically, we propose a novel formal theory of focus marking, which can capture these as well as the familiar English-type prosodic focus marking. Special attention is paid to the patterns of focus syncretism, that is, when different size and/or location of focus are indistinguishably realized by the same form. The key ingredients to our approach are that complex constituents (not just words) may be directly focally marked, and that the choice of focal marking is governed by blocking.
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spelling pubmed-106433712023-11-14 Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking Assmann, Muriel Büring, Daniel Jordanoska, Izabela Prüller, Max Nat Lang Linguist Theory Article Based on six detailed case studies of languages in which focus is marked morphosyntactically, we propose a novel formal theory of focus marking, which can capture these as well as the familiar English-type prosodic focus marking. Special attention is paid to the patterns of focus syncretism, that is, when different size and/or location of focus are indistinguishably realized by the same form. The key ingredients to our approach are that complex constituents (not just words) may be directly focally marked, and that the choice of focal marking is governed by blocking. Springer Netherlands 2023-01-27 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10643371/ /pubmed/37969619 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09567-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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