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Configuring Topic and Focus in Russian (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
Configuring Topic and Focus in Russian - Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes Author:Tracy Holloway King This work examines word order. More accurately, it is the ordering of constituents that is discussed since prepositional phrases and most noun phrases form syntactic constituents and the encoding of topic and focus in Russian. As has long been observed, word order in Russian encodes specific discourse information: with neutral intonation, topics... more » precede discourse-neutral constituents which precede foci. King extends this idea to show that word order encodes different types of topic and focus in a principled manner.« less