This paper proposes a novel analysis of the Russian OVS construction and argues that the parametric variation in the availability of OVS cross-linguistically depends on the type of relative interpretative argument prominence that a language encodes via syntactic structure. When thematic and information-structural prominence relations do not coincide, only one of them can be structurally/linearly represented. The relation that is not structurally/linearly encoded must be made visible at the PF interface either via prosody or morphology.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:6607 |
Date | January 2013 |
Creators | Titov, Elena |
Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen. Sonderforschungsbereich 632 - Informationsstruktur |
Source Sets | Potsdam University |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | InProceedings |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2013) 17 / S. 33-53 |
Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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