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a derivational syntax for information structure
in this volume luis lopez sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the minimalist program . through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in romance the author shows that notions such as topic and focus as usually defined yield no predictions and proposes instead a feature system based on the notions discourse anaphor and contrast . he presents a detailed model of syntax information structure interaction and argues that this interaction takes place at the phase level with a privileged role for the edge of the phase . further he investigates phenomena concerning the syntax of objects in romance and germanic accusative a p movement clitic doubling scrambling object shift and shows that there are cross linguistic correlations between syntactic configuration and specificity independent of discourse connectedness . the volume ends with an extended analysis of the syntax of dislocations in romance .