Focus realization in Romance and beyond /

Mostrar otras versiones (1)

What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of linguis...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: García, Marco García (Editor ), Uth, Melanie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 201.
Temas:
Romance languages > Topic and comment.
Focus (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Topic and comment.
Perspective (Linguistics)
Langues romanes > Sujet et prédicat.
Focus (Linguistique)
Sujet et prédicat.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Topic and comment
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: core issues of focus realization in Romance / Melanie Uth and Marco García García
  • 2. Language variation at the prosody-syntax interface: Focus in European Spanish / Maria del Mar Vanrell and Olga Fernández-Soriano
  • 3. Focus realization at the prosody-syntax interface: Yucatecan Spanish opposed to Standard Mexican Spanish / Melanie Uth
  • 4. Acceptability and frequency in Spanish focus marking / Steffen Heidinger
  • 5. Prosodic nuclear patterns in narrow and broad focus utterances: Pragmatic and social factors in Central Mexican Spanish / Pedro Martín Butragueño and Érika Mendoza
  • 6. Distinguishing contrast and focus at PF: A view from Italian / Jacopo Torregrossa
  • 7. Presupposed modality / Uli Reich
  • 8. NP exclamatives and focus / Marco García García
  • 9. Adverbial cleft sentences in Italian, French and English: A comparative perspective / Anna-Maria De Cesare and Davide Garassino
  • 10. Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: A case of pragmatic borrowing? / Carola Trips and Achim Stein
  • 11. Developing strategies for encoding additive and contrastive relations in French and German child narratives / Christine Dimroth and Sandra Benazzo
  • 12. Focus, prosody, and subject positions in L3 Spanish: Analyzing data from German learners with Italian and European Portuguese as heritage languages / Christoph Gabriel and Jonas Grünke
  • Index.

Ejemplares similares