TY  - CHAP
A1  - Haidou, Konstantina
T1  - On the syntax and pragmatics interface : Left-peripheral, medial and right-peripheral focus in greek
T2  - Proceedings of the Dislocated Elements Workshop : ZAS Berlin, November 2003 / Ed.: Benjamin Shaer ... , Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2004; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 35
N2  - The present paper explores the extent to which narrow syntax is responsible for the computation of discourse functions such as focus/topic. More specifically, it challenges the claim that language approximates ‘perfection’ with respect to economy, conceptual necessity and optimality in design by reconsidering the roles and interactions of the different modules of the grammar, in particular of syntax and phonology and the mapping between the two, in the representation of pragmatic notions. Empirical and theoretical considerations strongly indicate that narrow syntax is ‘blind’ to properties and operations involving the interpretive components — that is, PF and LF. As a result, syntax-phonology interface rules do not ‘see’ everything in the levels they connect. In essence, the architecture of grammar proposed here from the perspective of focus marking necessitates the autonomy of the different levels of grammar, presupposing that NS is minimally structured only when liberated from any non-syntactic/discourse implementations, i.e., movement operations to satisfy both interface needs. As a result, the model articulated here totally dispenses with discourse projections, i.e. FocusP.
KW  - Generative Transformationsgrammatik
KW  - Logische Form <Linguistik>
KW  - Pragmatik
KW  - Informationsstruktur
KW  - Thema-Rhema-Gliederung
KW  - Wortstellung
KW  - Neugriechisch
Y1  - 2004
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30900
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309004
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/193.html?&L=0%20order%20by%201000%20--
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 35
SP  - 193
EP  - 242
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -