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By Luis López

during this quantity, Luis López sheds new mild on details constitution and makes an important contribution to paintings on grammatical operations within the Minimalist application. via a cautious research of dislocations and concentration fronting in Romance, the writer indicates that notions similar to 'topic' and 'focus', as frequently outlined, yield no predictions and proposes in its place a characteristic approach according to the notions 'discourse anaphor' and 'contrast'. He offers a close version of
syntax—-information-structure interplay and argues that this interplay happens on the section point, with a privileged function for the sting of the part. extra, he investigates phenomena in regards to the syntax of items in Romance and Germanic - accusative A, p-movement, clitic doubling,
scrambling, item shift - and exhibits that there are cross-linguistic correlations among syntactic configuration and specificity, self reliant of discourse connectedness. the quantity ends with a longer research of the syntax of dislocations in Romance.

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