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Information Structure Projects in Syntax: Evidence from focus and Modality in Sinhala

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dc.contributor.author Ananda, M.G.L.
dc.date.accessioned 2019-12-20T09:35:43Z
dc.date.available 2019-12-20T09:35:43Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.identifier.citation Ananda, M.G.L. (2018). "Information Structure Projects in Syntax: Evidence from focus and Modality in Sinhala". en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/8590
dc.description.abstract The major claim of this paper is that information structure related particles of Sinhala are distinct functional heads and they project in syntax. This is in line with the cartographic approach to syntax which claims that discourse related features are visible for computation (Rizzi 1997, 2004), a claim also supported by Miyagawa, (2010), and Aboh (2010), among others. The present paper seeks to validate the above claim with evidence from Sinhala, motivating the argument that discourse related features lexicalized in Sinhala drive the derivation, and these features are comparable to formal features in establishing an Agree relation. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject information structure, functional heads, Sinhala, syntax en_US
dc.title Information Structure Projects in Syntax: Evidence from focus and Modality in Sinhala en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.identifier.doi 10.15290/cr.2018.21.2.02 en_US


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