Information status and noncanonical word order in English /

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This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English - preposing, postposing, and argument reversal - and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variety...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Birner, Betty J.
Otros Autores: Ward, Gregory L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 40.
Temas:
English language > Word order.
English language > Discourse analysis.
Anglais (Langue) > Ordre des mots.
Anglais (Langue) > Analyse du discours.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary.
REFERENCE > Word Lists.
English language > Discourse analysis
English language > Word order
Wortstellung
Topikalisierung
Engels.
Syntaxis.
Pragmatiek.
Woordvolgorde.
Anglais (langue) > Ordre des mots.
Anglais (langue) > Analyse du discours.
Englisch.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • INFORMATION STATUS AND NONCANONICAL WORD ORDER IN ENGLISH
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Preposing and Postposing Constructions
  • Preposing
  • Postposing
  • Argument reversal
  • Theoretical Framework
  • Focus/presupposition
  • 'New to the discourse' vs. 'new to the hearer'
  • Linking relations
  • Posets
  • Links
  • Weight
  • Data
  • Notational Conventions
  • Chapter 2. Preposing
  • Topicalization
  • General constraints
  • Proposition assessment
  • Proposition affirmation.
  • Proposition suspension
  • Topicalization and definiteness
  • Focus Preposing
  • General constraints
  • Echoing
  • Yiddish-movement
  • Left-Dislocation
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3. Postposing
  • General Constraints
  • Existential 'there'
  • Presentational 'there'
  • A comparison of existential and presentational 'there'
  • Definites in 'There'-Sentences
  • The so-called 'definiteness effect'
  • Definitesin existential 'there'-sentences
  • Hearer-old entities treated as hearer-new
  • Hearer-new tokens of hearer-old types
  • Hearer-old entities newly instantiating a variable
  • False definites.
  • Definites in presentational 'there'-sentences
  • Right-Dislocation
  • General constraints
  • A comparison of right-dislocation and postposing
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4. Argument Reversal
  • Inversion
  • General constraints
  • Linking relations
  • Inversion and definiteness
  • 'Locative inversion' and verb choice
  • Passivization
  • General constraints
  • Linking relations
  • A comparison of passivization and inversion
  • PP Preposing with 'There'-Insertion
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5. Noncanonical Word Order and Discourse Structure
  • Commonalities and Differences Across Constructions.
  • Linking Relations and Noncanonical Word Order
  • Preposing
  • Argument reversal
  • The anchoring poset
  • Open Propositions and Locative Constituents
  • Presuppositional preposing
  • Locative preposing constructions
  • Intonation
  • Inversion
  • Preposing
  • Toward a Unified Theory of Noncanonical Word Order
  • Chapter 6. Extensions and Implications
  • Crosslinguistic Extensions
  • Farsi inversion
  • Italian presentational 'ci'-sentences
  • Italian subject postposing
  • Italian inversion
  • Yiddish 'es'-sentences
  • Summary of Constraints on Noncanonical Word Order
  • Theoretical Implications.
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index.

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