Focus Coherence and Emphasis

<p>First published in 1984 this book examines a number of questions on the boundary of competence and performance — whose solutions have implications for linguistic theory in general. In particular the form of grammatical statements the relationship between various rules of grammar the interaction between sentence in a sequence and the inferences to be drawn from linguistic behaviour to linguistic knowledge. The author argues that many grammatical processes inadequately handled by conventional sentence-grammars require a text grammar in which the basic constitutive processes of information and deixis can be specified. They ago further to investigate the novel hypothesis that emphatic structure provides a crucial condition for the application of transformational rules paying particular attention to the ‘movement-rules’ using mostly data culled from actual usage.</p>