Modeling Topic / Focus: Evidence from Russian eventive nominalizations

Asya Pereltsvaig
Independent Scholar

Abstract. This paper argues in favor of the anti-cartographic approach to modeling information structure, in particular the representation of topic and focus in Russian based on eventive nominalizations.

Keywords: information structure, cartography, nominalizations, Russian

For citation: Pereltsvaig A. Modeling topic / focus: Evidence from Russian eventive nominalizations. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2018. Vol. 1, iss. 1. Pp. 104–118.