Topic and Focus Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and Intonation /

This book contains a collection of papers exploring the cross-linguistic expression of topic and focus. A diverse set of perspectives from some of the leading scholars in the areas of semantics and intonation are represented in the collection, which is based on papers presented at the Topic and Focu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Lee, Chungmin (Editor ), Gordon, Matthew (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 82
Temas:
Linguistics.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Constraints on Intonational Prominence of Focalized Constituents
  • Polish Narrow Focus Constructions
  • Intonation and Thematic Roles in Riau Indonesian
  • The Intonational Realization of Contrastive Focus in Chickasaw
  • Types of Focus in English
  • The Prosody of Topic and Focus in Spontaneous English Dialogue
  • Perceiving Focus
  • The Semantics of Questions and the Focusation of Answers
  • Contrastive (Predicate) Topic, Intonation, and Scalar Meanings
  • Prosody and Scope Interpretations of the Topic Marker 'Wa' in Japanese
  • Focus and Taiwanese Unchecked Tones
  • Bengali Intonation Revisited: An Optimality Theoretic Analysis in which FOCUS Stress Prominence Drives FOCUS Phrasing
  • Information-Structural Semantics for English Intonation
  • Discourse Structure and Intonational Phrasing.

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