Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Three aspects of syntactic structure
- 2 Identifying constituents and categories
- 3 Passives, applicatives, and “Dative Shift”
- 4 Reflexives
- 5 Control
- 6 Pragmatic functions: topic and focus
- 7 Filler–gap dependencies and relativization
- 8 Causative constructions
- 9 Serial verbs and related issues
- 10 “Quirky case” and subjecthood
- 11 Syntactic ergativity
- References
- General index
- Language index
6 - Pragmatic functions: topic and focus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Three aspects of syntactic structure
- 2 Identifying constituents and categories
- 3 Passives, applicatives, and “Dative Shift”
- 4 Reflexives
- 5 Control
- 6 Pragmatic functions: topic and focus
- 7 Filler–gap dependencies and relativization
- 8 Causative constructions
- 9 Serial verbs and related issues
- 10 “Quirky case” and subjecthood
- 11 Syntactic ergativity
- References
- General index
- Language index
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- Analyzing SyntaxA Lexical-Functional Approach, pp. 135 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004