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Information structure of spoken language from a cross-linguistic perspective /
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 descript...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2015.
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
283. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.