Discourse and Grammar : Focussing and Defocussing in English.

Intro -- Contents -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 The subject-matter to be investigated -- 1.2 Focus(sing) and defocussing -- 1.2.1 Focus(sing) -- 1.2.2 Defocussing -- 1.3 Functional differences -- 1.3.1 Theme (/ rheme) -- 1.3.2 Topic -- 1.3.3 Information: given/ new -- 1.3.4 Constituent weight -- 2.0 The English sentence -- 2.1 The nominal group -- 2.1.1 Nominal pre-modification -- 2.1.2 Nominal post-modification -- 2.2 The verbal group -- 2.2.1 Verb modification -- 2.3 The adverbial group -- 3.0 Defocussing syntagms -- 3.1 Inversion -- 3.1.1 Types of inversion -- 3.2 There sentences -- 3.2.1 The form there -- 3.2.2 Concord in there sentences -- 3.2.3 The verbal group -- 3.2.4 The post-positioned nominal group -- 3.2.5 There in non-finite clauses -- 3.2.6 Uses of there sentences -- 3.3 Extrapositional it sentences -- 3.3.1 Grammatical analysis -- 3.3.2 Analyses of the extr. it sentence -- 3.3.3 Uses of the extr. it sentence -- 4.0 Focussing syntagms -- 4.1 Focussing it sentences -- 4.1.1 Grammatical analysis -- 4.1.2 Focussability of constituents -- 4.1.3 Analyses of foc. it sentences -- 4.1.4 Uses of foc. it sentences -- 4.2 Focussing wh- sentences -- 4.2.1 Grammatical analysis -- 4.2.2 Focussability of constituents -- 4.2.3 Analyses of the foc. wh- sentence -- 4.2.4 Uses of the foc. wh- sentence -- 4.3 Focussing copula sentences -- 4.3.1 Transposed foc. wh- sentences -- 4.3.2 Generalizing nominal expressions -- 5.0 Summary -- References -- Corpus texts -- Index.

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