Saliency and contrast in colloquial bulgarian : Clitic left dislocation versus contrastive topicalization
- The claim advanced in this paper is that the presence of a left-dislocated element together with a resumptive clitic in Bulgarian is a special case of argument saturation with implications for the focus structure of the clause, while contrast involves discontinuous focus (contrastive topics/foci) with no clitics present in the derivation. Contrastive topic/focus constructions in Bulgarian can be united on the view that they involve (sets of) ordered pairs where the higher element is valuing a contrastive feature (cf. OCC in Chomsky 2001) while the element in the VP is a non-contrastive topic or focus. The contrastive feature participates in wh-structures but not in clitic-left-dislocated structures where pairing between arguments is 'accidental'.
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| Author: | Olga Arnaudova |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308937 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/193.html?&L=0%20order%20by%201000%20-- |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | 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 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | Dislocated Elements Workshop |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Umgangssprache; Oberflächenstruktur <Linguistik>; Tiefenstruktur; Klitisierung; Wortstellung; Topikalisierung; Bulgarisch |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Page Number: | 25 |
| First Page: | 15 |
| Last Page: | 39 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 381234126 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 49 Andere Sprachen / 491 Ostindoeuropäische und keltische Sprachen |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Dialektologie/Sprachgeografie / Dialectology/Linguistic geography | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 35 = Proceedings of the Dislocated Elements Workshop : ZAS Berlin, November 2003 |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306765 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
