Topics: structure and function

Diplôme Thèse Topics: structure and function eng 2017-03-24 author Jokilehto Dara Sebastian 764389 director Puskas Genoveva 22850 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:101365 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1013656 L. 880 Following a feature-based approach to information structure and a new approach to the definition of topics, a structure for different kinds of topics is proposed, showing that the Finnish and Hungarian left peripheries are more similar than previously thought, in line with cartographic models. The most popular definition of topics in terms of aboutness is reanalysed as a consequence of the relationship between the comment of the utterance and support entities: processing effort minimisers, thanks to the application of a principle inspired by Relevance Theory, where comments are expected to be relevant contributions to the discourse. The contrastive feature is proposed to project a head which encodes a true mathematical function, which applies to non-topics, as well. Furthermore, an interface mechanism is proposed for nanosyntax, the feature-based approach being employed. Syntax Finnish Hungarian Nanosyntax Cartography Information structure Dewey 410 82 Département de linguistique 39 false 7d5db393-58c7-46d7-90d0-0d0cdd90ceca Thesis Public JokilehtoPhD_archive_ouverte.pdf 3530409 application/pdf openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de linguistique

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Jokilehto, Dara Sebastian