The Restricted Access of Information Structure to Syntax - A Minority Report

Gisbert Fanselow

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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Linguistics and Discourse Analysis Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition

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This paper sketches the view that syntax does not directly interact with information structure. Therefore, syntactic data are of little help when one wants to narrow down the interpretation of terms such as “focus”, “topic”, etc.

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