Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure [electronic resource] / edited by Carsten Breul, Edward Gobbel.

Contributor(s): Breul, Carsten | Gobbel, Edward | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 165.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010Description: xii, 306 p. : illISBN: 9789027287847 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax | Contrastive linguistics | Focus (Linguistics) | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and commentGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 415 LOC classification: P291 | .C573 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction / Carsten Breul, Edward Gobbel & Alexander Thiel -- Contrastive topics and distributed foci as instances of sub-informativity : a comparison of English and German / Volker Gast -- Givenness and discourse anaphors / Luis Lopez -- Constraints on subject-focus mapping in French and English : a contrastive analysis / Knud Lambrecht -- Wh-questions in French and English : mapping syntax to information structure / Paul Boucher -- A comparative perspective on intensive reflexives : English and Hebrew / Dana Cohen -- Focus types and argument asymmetries : a cross-linguistic study in language production / Stavros Skopeteas and Gisbert Fanselow -- Topicality in L1-acquisition : a contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and German / Nicole Hauser-Grudl -- Formal and functional constraints on constituent order and their universality / Peter Ohl -- On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure / Carsten Breul.
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"The present book contains a selection of articles based on papers presented at the conference on 'Contrastive Information Structure Analysis' organised by Carsten Breul at the University of Wuppertal in March 2008"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Carsten Breul, Edward Gobbel & Alexander Thiel -- Contrastive topics and distributed foci as instances of sub-informativity : a comparison of English and German / Volker Gast -- Givenness and discourse anaphors / Luis Lopez -- Constraints on subject-focus mapping in French and English : a contrastive analysis / Knud Lambrecht -- Wh-questions in French and English : mapping syntax to information structure / Paul Boucher -- A comparative perspective on intensive reflexives : English and Hebrew / Dana Cohen -- Focus types and argument asymmetries : a cross-linguistic study in language production / Stavros Skopeteas and Gisbert Fanselow -- Topicality in L1-acquisition : a contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and German / Nicole Hauser-Grudl -- Formal and functional constraints on constituent order and their universality / Peter Ohl -- On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure / Carsten Breul.

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