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This volume presents original comparative and contrastive research into various aspects of information structure (topic, focus, contrastivity, givenness, anaphoricity) as well as into forms and structures whose realisation depends on information-structural factors (clefts, dislocations, reflexives, null subjects, prosodic features, interrogatives) in a number of different languages (Catalan, English, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Hungarian). Each contribution emphasises differences or commonalities between the languages under investigation with respect to the realisation of information structural categories or with respect to the information structural implications of a given form or structure. The specific comparative-contrastive perspective of the volume makes a substantial contribution towards a better understanding of language specific and universal aspects of information structure. It raises significant questions and provides solutions for the formal representation and the functional properties of information structural categories.

Table of Contents:
1. Preface; 2. List of contributors; 3. List of abbreviations; 4. Introduction (by Breul, Carsten); 5. Contrastive topics and distributed foci as instances of sub-informativity: A comparison of English and German (by Gast, Volker); 6. Givenness and discourse anaphors (by Lopez, Luis); 7. Constraints on subject-focus mapping in French and English: A contrastive analysis (by Lambrecht, Knud); 8. Wh-questions in French and English: Mapping syntax to information structure (by Boucher, Paul); 9. A comparative perspective on intensive reflexives: English and Hebrew (by Cohen, Dana); 10. Focus types and argument asymmetries: A cross-linguistic study in language production (by Skopeteas, Stavros); 11. Topicality in L1-acquisition: A contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and German (by Hauser-Grudl, Nicole); 12. Formal and functional constraints on constituent order and their universality (by Ohl, Peter); 13. On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure (by Breul, Carsten); 14. Subject index


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  • ISBN-13: 9789027255488
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Height: 245 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Series Title: 165 Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
  • Width: 164 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9027255482
  • Publisher Date: 09 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Weight: 720 gr


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