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Title Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure / edited by Carsten Breul, Edward Göbbel.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 165
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 165.
Note "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"--Preface.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Carsten Breul, & Edward Göbbel & 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 López -- 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 & Gisbert Fanselow -- Topicality in L1-acquisition : a contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and German / Nicole Hauser-Grüdl -- Formal and functional constraints on constituent order and their universality / Peter Öhl -- On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure / Carsten Breul.
Summary 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 str.
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Contrastive linguistics.
Contrastive linguistics.
Focus (Linguistics)
Focus (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Breul, Carsten.
Göbbel, Edward.
Other Form: Print version: Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010 9789027255488 (DLC) 2010022887 (OCoLC)639163035
ISBN 9789027255488 (electronic book)
9027255482 (electronic book)
9027287848 (electronic book)
9789027287847 (electronic book)
Standard No. 9786612775031