Autore
Vogel, RalfTitolo
Is prominence a useful concept for the theory of syntax?Periodico
Lingue e linguaggioAnno:
2015 - Volume:
27 - Fascicolo:
1 - Pagina iniziale:
97 - Pagina finale:
112The main purpose of this paper is an explication and evaluation of the notion (morpho)syntactic prominence. The notion has to be distinguished from already established concepts like markedness and ico¬nicity. The basis for syntactic prominence is asymmetries in the syntactic form. A syntactic unit a is more prominent than another syntactic unit b, if there is a syntactic asymmetry between them and in addition a has a prominence defining property that b lacks. If this property is a morphosyntactic property, we have a case of truly morphosyntactic prominence. If that property is a semantic or phonological property, we have a case of borrowed morphosyntactic prominence. A wider range of morphosyntactic relations is analysed with respect to their potential contribution to morphosyntactic prominence. A central result of these considerations is that morphosyntactic prominence can be helpful in readjusting the focus of interest in syntactic theory to major syntactic domains and their lexical core.
SICI: 1720-9331(2015)27:1<97:IPAUCF>2.0.ZU;2-W
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