Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure
Editors
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.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 165] 2010. xii, 306 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. VII
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List of contributors | pp. IX–X
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List of abbreviations | pp. XI–XII
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IntroductionCarsten Breul, Edward Göbbel and Alexander Thiel | pp. 1–14
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Contrastive topics and distributed foci as instances of sub-informativity: A comparison of English and GermanVolker Gast | pp. 15–50
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Givenness and discourse anaphorsLuis López | pp. 51–76
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Constraints on subject-focus mapping in French and English: A contrastive analysisKnud Lambrecht | pp. 77–100
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Wh-questions in French and English: Mapping syntax to information structurePaul Boucher | pp. 101–138
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A comparative perspective on intensive reflexives: English and HebrewDana Cohen | pp. 139–168
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Focus types and argument asymmetries: A cross-linguistic study in language productionStavros Skopeteas and Gisbert Fanselow | pp. 169–198
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Topicality in L1-acquisition: A contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and GermanNicole Hauser-Grüdl | pp. 199–230
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Formal and functional constraints on constituent order and their universalityPeter Öhl | pp. 231–276
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On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structureCarsten Breul | pp. 277–304
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Subject index | pp. 305–306
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General