| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 165 |
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 165
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| Contents |
Introduction / Carsten Breul, & Edward Göbbel & Alexander Thiel -- Contrastive topics and distributed foci as instances of sub-informativity : a comparison of English and German / Volker Gast -- Givenness and discourse anaphors / Luis López -- Constraints on subject-focus mapping in French and English : a contrastive analysis / Knud Lambrecht -- Wh-questions in French and English : mapping syntax to information structure / Paul Boucher -- A comparative perspective on intensive reflexives : English and Hebrew / Dana Cohen -- Focus types and argument asymmetries : a cross-linguistic study in language production / Stavros Skopeteas & Gisbert Fanselow -- Topicality in L1-acquisition : a contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and German / Nicole Hauser-Grüdl -- Formal and functional constraints on constituent order and their universality / Peter Öhl -- On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure / Carsten Breul |
| Summary |
This volume presents original comparative and contrastive research into various aspects of information structure (topic, focus, contrastivity, givenness, anaphoricity) as well as into forms and structures whose realisation depends on information-structural factors (clefts, dislocations, reflexives, null subjects, prosodic features, interrogatives) in a number of different languages (Catalan, English, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Hungarian). Each contribution emphasises differences or commonalities between the languages under investigation with respect to the realisation of information str |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Contrastive linguistics.
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Focus (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Breul, Carsten.
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Göbbel, Edward.
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| ISBN |
9027255482 (electronic bk.) |
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9027287848 (electronic bk.) |
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9789027255488 (electronic bk.) |
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9789027287847 (electronic bk.) |
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