Focus and Secondary Predication

Susanne Winkler

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9783110150575
• eBook ISBN: 9783110815214
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
• 1. Syntactic focus theory and the phenomenon of secondary predication
• 2. Roadmap
• 2. Syntactic representation of secondary predications
• 1. The small clause analysis
• 1.1. The theoretical program
• 1.2. Stowell’s dilemma: problems with the ungoverned status of PRO
• 1.3. Alternative small clause proposals
• 1.4. Hoekstra’s (1988) generalization of the small clause analysis to resultatives
• 1.5. Conclusion
• 2. The predication theory analysis
• 2.1. Williams (1980): the theory of predication
• 2.2. Williams’ (1983) arguments against small clauses
• 2.3. Conclusion
• 3. Distributional syntax of secondary predications
• 3.1. Rothstein’s (1985) elaboration of the predication theory
• 3.2. Culicover & Wilkins (1984, 1986): VP-internal representation of depictives
• 3.3. McNulty (1988): modifications of Rothstein’s analysis
• 3.4. Roberts (1988): the subject in VP hypothesis
• 4. Defending a complex predicate analysis
• 4.1. Larson’s (1988) complex predicate analysis
• 4.2. Modification of Larson’s proposal
• 4.3. Theta-theoretical considerations
• 5. Conclusion
• 3. Focus structure in a principle-based theory of grammar
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Focus as a syntactic feature: a historical development
• 2.1. The syntactic approach
• 2.2. The semantic-pragmatic approach
• 2.3. Focus as new information
• 2.4. The focus structure approach
• 2.5. Conclusion
• 3. The modularity of intonational models and the theory of focus
• 3.1. Culicover & Rochemont (1983): a modular NSR-based account
• 3.2. Gussenhoven (1983): focus domain formation replacing the NSR
• 3.3. Selkirk (1984): a pitch-accent-first model
• 3.4. Rochemont (1986): an elaborated pitch-accent-first model
• 3.5. The concept of argument structure in Selkirk’s and Rochemont’s focus theories
• 3.6. Excursion: Cinque’s (1993) revival of the syntactic approach
• 4. Conclusion
• 4. Focus theory and theta-saturation theory as methods of licensing
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The intonational model
• 3. The motivation of the intonational model
• 3.1. WH-questions are not an exception to the DFA
• 3.2. Focus assignment at D-structure
• 3.3. Focus assignment and adjuncts
• 3.4. Licensing, focus, and the argument-adjunct asymmetry in a derivational approach
• 4. A generalization of the focus licensing principles
• 4.1. Introduction
• 4.2. The licensing theory of theta-saturation and argument structure
• 4.3. Focus licensing principles revisited
• 5. Conclusion
• 5. Pitch extraction analysis of secondary predications: experimental data
• 1. Introduction and experimental design
• 2. Pitch extraction analysis of resultatives and depictives
• 2.1. Transitive AP resultatives
• 2.2. Intransitive resultatives
• 2.3. German Vend resultatives
• 2.4. Object-oriented depictives
• 2.5. German Vend depictives
• 2.6. Focus on the secondary predicate
• 2.7. Conclusions on the production experiment
• 3. Prosodic disambiguation of secondary predications
• 3.1. Prosodic disambiguation of resultatives vs. depictives
• 3.2. Prosodic disambiguation of directional and locative PPs
• 3.3. Perception test
• 4. Evaluation of experiments and summary
• 5. Pitch extraction contours of related finite and noninflectional constructions
• 5.1. Thetic finite constructions
• 5.2. Thetic noninflectional constructions
• 5.3. Categorical finite constructions
• 5.4. Categorical noninflectional constructions
• 5.5. Summary
• 6. Conclusion
• 6. Syntactic licensing and focus projection in secondary predications
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Syntactic licensing of resultatives
• 2.1. Event structure of resultatives
• 2.2. Incorporation of resultative event composition into Higginbotham’s phrase structure theory
• 2.3. Particle and three-place predicate constructions
• 2.4. Conclusion
• 3. Syntactic licensing of depictives
• 3.1. Arguments against the licensing of depictives at D-structure
• 3.2. Subject-predicate and predicate-predicate-linking
• 3.3. Explanation of the differences between RSPs and DSPs
• 3.4. Conclusion
• 4. Focus projection in secondary predications
• 4.1. Introduction
• 4.2. Focus projection in RSPs
• 4.3. Focus projection in DSPs
• 4.4. Licensing and the focus-projective behavior of related constructions
• 5. Conclusion
• 7. Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Records
• Index