Focus and Relativization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2879296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Schachter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19 |
| Publication date | 1973-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/412101 |
| OpenAlex | W2094955796 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 141 |
| References cited | 2 |
In many languages, focus constructions and constructions involving restrictive relative clauses show striking formal similarities, a fact which suggests that there is some deep, non-language-specific relationship between the constructions. The most tenable hypothesis about the nature of this relationship seems to be that both constructions involve the promotion of material from an embedded into a matrix sentence, a syntactic process that may be correlated with the semantic process of foregrounding one part of a sentence at the expense of the rest
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Perfectivity and time reference in Hausa
Focus marking in Kikuyu
Equational-intensional relative clauses with syntactic representation
Questions and focus
Clefts in Scandinavian
Typology and universals
Micro-Variation within Bizkaiera Basque
Sentential Negation and Verb Movement in Bantu Languages
The syntax of relative clauses in Croatian
The Iconicity of Grammar
The Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy Reinterpreted
Copular clauses, clefts, and putative sluicing in Uzbek
Movement Rules in Functional Perspective
Extraposition and Focus
Cleft sentences and reconstruction in child language
The Referential Status of Clefts
Subject prominence and processing dependencies in prenominal relative clauses
Resumptive Restrictive Relatives
Deep-Structure Binding of Pronouns and Anaphoric Bleeding
Discourse Structure and the Perception of Incoherence in International Teaching Assistants' Spoken Discourse
Relative clause constructions in Nkami
The Hausa perfective tense-aspect used in wh-/focus constructions and historical narratives
Probing the interaction of language contact and internal innovation
Auxiliary focus
Restrictive vs non-restrictive relative clauses in Hausa where morphosyntax and semantics meet
One-term predication for deictic identification in Hausa
Focus and question formation in Edo
Evidence for head raising in Kiswahili relative clauses
Topic, focus, and deep structure
New information and contrastiveness in Haida
A note on evaluative nouns and relativization
Relative that – a centennial dispute
Subordinate Clauses in Southern Paiute
Tense in the Haida Relative Clause
Headless Relative Clauses in Quechua
Topicalization and Relativization in Minimalist Syntax
Uncertainty About the Rest of the Sentence
Dependency, Constituency, and Linear Order
Heads, Arguments, and Adjuncts
A Radical Approach to Syntactic Relations
Syntactic Theory and the Theory of Language
Syntactic Argumentation and Radical Construction Grammar
The Voice Continuum
Parts of Speech
Clausal Syntactic Roles (“Grammatical Relations”)
The Coordination—Subordination Continuum
Syntactic Categories and Semantic Relativity
Extraposition
The Syntax of Chinese
World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
Resumption, Successive Cyclicity, and the Locality of Operations
Radical Construction Grammar
Revisiting the system of English relative clauses
Promotion vs matching
Relatives à antécédent interne, nominalisation et focalisation
Non-local matching of adjectival modifiers in Mandarin stacked relative clauses
Sobre La Sintaxis De Las Oraciones De Relativo
Não Existe Estrutura Relativa Em Chinês
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Control and intermediate scrambling
Towards a unified account of na in Akan
Wh-which relatives and the existence of pied-piping
Same
Same Degree of Intensification with Different Degrees of Sentential Projections
Anaphor reconstruction in Japanese relative clauses
Familiar when -relatives and peculiar when -relatives in English
Weak crossover in Spanish relative clauses
On the computational modeling of English relative clauses
Variation in Information Structure with Special Reference to Africa
Uncertainty in processing relative clauses across East Asian languages
The grammaticalisation of verb-auxiliary order in East African Bantu
Attract F and Verbal Morphology in Kiswahili
High analyticity and Coptic particle syntax
That Crazy Idea of Hers
Second chances in antecedent retrieval
An experimental approach to the reconstruction of the head quantifier phrase in Chinese relative clauses
Resumption optionality in direct object relative clauses in modern standard Arabic
Voice and relativization without movement in Malagasy
Relative embeddings
The Arguments about Deep Structure
Where do Cleft Sentences Come from
Constraints on Movement Rules
Acquisition of Japanese relative clauses by L1 Chinese learners
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners
The Morphosyntactic Coding of Focus Structure in Igbo
The presence of head-raising and resumptive-stranding in Japanese relative clauses
C-T inheritance and relativization in Late Archaic Chinese
Relatives et adjectifs en Arabe
Syntactic conditions on special inflection
Head external analysis, head raising analysis or matching analysis? Let's ask experimental syntax
A reconsideration of the syntax of Chinese relative structures
Raising and matching in Pharasiot Greek relative clauses
V P-fronting with and without remnant movement
Wolof wh-movement at the syntax-morphology interface
Focus marking in Bura
On Headed, Headless, and Light-Headed Relatives
Possession and syntactic categories
DP structure and internally headed relatives in Washo
| Unique citing works | 141 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,71 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2026 (53) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 105 |