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1 online resource |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 283 |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 283.
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| Contents |
Table of contents ; Introduction ; I. Theoretical Approaches to IS ; 1. Detachment Linguistics and Information Grammar of Oral Languages ; 2. Reference and Cognitive Status: Scalar Inference and Typology |
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3. Saliency in discourse and sentence form: Zero anaphora and topicalization in Japanese 4. An Overview of Information Structure in three Amazonian Languages ; II. IS and Spoken language ; 5. Micro-variation in information structure: There sentences in Italo-Romance |
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6. How does adjacency arise? Grammatical conditions on focus-verb adjacency in Basque 7. Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations ; 8. Tag questions and focus markers: Evidence from the Tompo dialect of Even |
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9. Syntactic and Prosodic Marking of Contrastiveness in Spoken Chinese 10. Demonstratives and Information Structure in Spoken Estonian ; III. IS and Discourse Particles ; 11. Word order and focus particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages |
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12. The discourse particle to and word ordering in Hindi: From grammar to discourse IV. IS and Language Contacts ; 13. Discourse Regulating Strategies in Pidgin Madam ; 14. New Information Structuring Processes and Morphosyntactic Change ; Name index ; Language index |
| Summary |
The present volume draws together contributions from a number of scholars with an interest in empirical, cross-linguistic description. Most of the papers were first presented at the symposium Information Structure in a Cross-linguistic Perspective held in Oslo in November/December 2000. The descriptions are functionally oriented, and their common focus is how information structure - in a broad sense - can be compared across languages. 'Information structure' has been approached in a variety of ways by the authors, so as to give a broad picture of this fundamental principle of text production, involving the way in which a speaker/writer chooses to present a message in terms of given/new information, focus, cohesion, and point of view. Central to much of the research is the problem of establishing criteria for isolating linguistic constraints on language use from cultural-linguistic conventions in text production. The linguistic comparison includes English, German and/or one of the Scandinavian languages, with sidelights to other languages. Most of the papers are text- or corpus-based, and the ongoing work on parallel corpora in Scandinavia is reflected in several contributions |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital cover (viewed on August 25, 2015) |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphosyntax.
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Discourse analysis
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Oral communication.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Discourse analysis
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphosyntax
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Oral communication
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fernandez, M. M. Jocelyne, editor
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Van Valin, Robert D., editor
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| ISBN |
9783110368758 |
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3110368757 |
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9783110368765 |
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3110368765 |
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