Browsing by Author "Lyu, Hee Young"
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A grammatical approach to topic and focus : a syntactic analysis with preliminary evidence from language acquisition
(2011-08)The goal of this dissertation is to argue on the basis of the minimalist framework that the topichood of sentence topics and contrastive focus result from derivational and structural differences in the left periphery and ... -
Two different topic structures in SOV languages
(2006-05)The main objective of this thesis is to argue that the different topic and focus readings of Korean nun-marked phrases result from structural differences. Korean nun-marked phrases can receive a topic reading a contrastive ...
