@inbook{e4cbc34cb0894d9686da7ceadd3d8baf,
title = "The Syntax-Focus Structure Interface",
abstract = "Focus structure (f-structure) theory is a model of informational structure. It provides a natural account of a wide range of linguistic phenomena, usually ac-counted for by syntactic constraints and rules of logical form (LF), including quantifier scope, interpretations of wh-questions, anaphora, and extraction. A model of grammar necessarily includes f-structure since it determines intonation. F-structure theory allows for a large part of syntax, including LF syntax, to be handled by f-structure principles. The model I propose is therefore maximally simple in that it enables interpretation off-structures directly without the mediation of LF. Constraints on f-structure take two forms: those that are only loosely deter-mined by syntax rendering marked and unmarked sequences (quantifier scope), and others which pertain to a well-defined class of dependencies which require isomorphism between f-structure and syntactic structure. This chapter aims to illustrate these claims with a selection of such dependencies (wh-movement, negation)",
keywords = "Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax",
author = "Nomi Shir",
year = "1997",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1163/9789004373167_009",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780126135299",
series = "Syntax and Semantics",
publisher = "Brill",
pages = "211--240",
editor = "{Culicover }, Peter and McNally, {Louise }",
booktitle = "The Limits of Syntax",
}