Michael Rochemont
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Rochemont is
involved.
Title
Focus in Generative Grammar
Michael Rochemont
The topic of this book is the notion of ‘focus’ and its linguistic characterization. The main thesis is that focus has a uniform grammatical identification only as a syntactic element with – in English at least – a certain systematic phonological interpretation and – presumably universally – a… read moreArticles
Rochemont, Michael 2013
Discourse new, focused, and given Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference, Brandtler, Johan, Valéria Molnár and Christer Platzack (eds.), pp. 199–228 | Article Mandatory phrasal prominence on a constituent in English is often attributed to the presence of a focus interpretation for that constituent, be it focus as discourse new or as selection among discourse relevant alternatives. It is argued here that these two functions of focus should be empirically… read more Rochemont, Michael and Peter W. Culicover 1997
Deriving Dependent Right Adjuncts in English Rightward Movement, Beermann, Dorothee, David LeBlanc and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), pp. 279–300 | Article 
