Inhalt

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   Acknowledgments
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   Contents
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   List of Abbreviations
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   List of Figures
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   List of Tables
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  Introduction
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   Relevance of the thesis
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   The data
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   Structure of the thesis
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   I Theoretical background
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  Information structure
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   Introduction
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   Concepts of information structure
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  The notion of focus
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   Definition
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  Focus types
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   Non-identificational focus
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   Identificational focus
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   Strategies of focus marking
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   Summary
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  The notion of topic
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   Definition
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   Topic types
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   Strategies of topic marking
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   Summary
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   Conclusion
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  Urum: A brief description
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   Introduction
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   Documentation and language use
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   Language contact
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   Lexicon
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  Phonology
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   Consonants
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   Vowels
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   Vowel harmony
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  Nominal morphology
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   Number
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   Case
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   Possession
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   Determiners
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   Quantifiers and numerals
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   Personal pronouns
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   Interrogative pronouns
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   Adjectives
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   Negation
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  Verbal morphology
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   Passive
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   Negation
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   Person and number
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   Aspect
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   Tense
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   Mood
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   Adverbs
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  Basic word order
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   Structure of the NP
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   Structure of the VP
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  Questions
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   Wh-questions
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   Polar questions
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   Tag questions
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   Coordination
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  Subordination
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   Complement clauses
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   Adverbial clauses
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   Relative clauses
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   Summary
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  Word order in Turkish and Russian
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   Introduction
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  Turkish
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   Basic word order
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   Word order and information structure
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   Focus and word order
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   Topic and word order
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   Summary
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  Russian
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   Basic word order
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   Word order and information structure
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   Focus and word order
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   Topic and word order
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   Summary
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   Final comparison
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  Syntactic approaches to information structure
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   Introduction
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  Some notes on the generative framework
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   The Minimalist Program
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   Derivation by Phase
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   Summary
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  Overview of previous approaches
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   Classification
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  Approaches to Russian IS
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   Cartographic approaches
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   Non-cartographic approaches
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  Approaches to Turkish IS
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   Cartographic approaches
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   Non-cartographic approaches
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   Summary
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  A simplified syntactic approach to Turkish and Russian IS
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   IS-related movement in Russian
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   IS-related movement in Turkish
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   Summary and conclusions
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   II Empirical studies and syntactic analysis
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  Focus
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   Introduction
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  Speech production
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   Introduction
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  Method
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   Participants
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   Material and design
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   Procedure
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   Scoring
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  Results
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   Turkish
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   Russian
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   Urum
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   Summary and discussion
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   Interim conclusions
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  Acceptability judgment
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   Introduction
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  Method
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   Participants
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   Material and design
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   Procedure
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   Results
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   Turkish
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   Russian
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   Urum
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   Summary and discussion
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   Interim conclusions
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   Conclusions
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  Topic
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   Introduction
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  Speech production
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   Introduction
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  Method
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   Participants
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   Material and design
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   Procedure
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   Scoring
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  Results
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   Turkish
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   Russian
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   Urum
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   Summary and discussion
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   Interim conclusions
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  Acceptability judgment
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   Introduction
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  Method
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   Participants
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   Material and design
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   Procedure
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   Results
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   Turkish
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   Russian
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   Urum
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   Summary and discussion
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   Interim conclusions
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   Conclusions
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  The syntax of focus and topic in Urum
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   Introduction
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   Base position of arguments
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   Problems with a cartographic approach
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  An alternative approach to Urum IS
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   Focus movement
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  Topic movement
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   Preverbal topics
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   Postverbal topics
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   Summary
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   Interim summary
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   Conclusions
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  Conclusions
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   Summary
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   The role of language contact
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   The role of literacy
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   Relevance of the thesis from a broader perspective
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   Future research
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  Bibliography
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   Appendices
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   Appendix Material focus elicitation study
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   Appendix Material focus acceptability judgment task
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   Appendix Material topic elicitation study
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   Appendix Material topic acceptability judgment task
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   Zusammenfassung (German summary)