Focus in Aghem
Focus in Aghem
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专注于阿格姆
DOI：
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570959.003.0009
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
C. Féry
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作者：
M. Polinsky;Larry M. Hyman;M. Zimmermann;C. Féry
长期以来，研究人员一直将阿格姆焦点标记视为一种不寻常的现象，无论是描述性的还是理论上的。主要的描述性概括是，Aghem 中的焦点表达与紧接动词后位置密切相关，自 Watters (1979) 和 Hyman (1979a) 的开创性工作以来，该位置以缩写 IAV（紧接在动词之后）而闻名。为了说明这一点，请比较 (1) 中的基线句子，其中焦点要么在整个动词短语上，要么在宾语（窄焦点）上，与 (2a) 中，窄焦点主语出现在 IAV 中，以及 (2b) 中，焦点附加语出现在 IAV 中：
Aghem focus marking has long been noted by researchers as an unusual phenomenon, both descriptively and theoretically. The main descriptive generalization is that focus expression in Aghem is intimately connected with the immediate postverbal position, which, since the pioneering work of Watters (1979) and Hyman (1979a), has been known under the abbreviation IAV (immediately after the verb). To illustrate, compare the baseline sentence in (1), where the focus is either on the entire verb phrase or on the object (narrow focus), with (2a), where the narrowly focused subject appears in the IAV, and (2b), where the focused adjunct instead appears in the IAV: