Stage topics and their architecture

Nomi Erteschik-Shir

doi:10.1515/9781501504488-008

Stage topics and their architecture

Nomi Erteschik-Shir

Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics

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Abstract

All focus sentences have implicit "stage" topics indicating the spatiotemporal parameters of the sentence, the here-and-now of the discourse. Such topics can provide the main topic of the sentence and can also appear as the topics of subordinate clauses. This paper is about the role of stage topics in grammar including the distinction between stage and individual level predicates, anaphora in sentences with verbs of perception, the definiteness effect in existen-tials and extraction out of picture noun phrases and relative clauses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Architecture of Topic
Publisher	de Gruyter
Pages	223-247
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Electronic)	9781501504488
ISBN (Print)	9781501512612
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504488-008
State	Published - 19 Aug 2019

Keywords

Existentials
Extraction
Information structure
Perception predicates
Stage-level predicates
The definiteness effect
Thetic sentence
Truth-value

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences

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