TY - BOOK AU - Breul,Carsten AU - G�obbel,Edward ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure T2 - Linguistik aktuell = AV - P291 .C573 2010eb U1 - 415 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Pub. Co. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Syntax KW - Contrastive linguistics KW - Focus (Linguistics) KW - Topic and comment KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - "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 G�obbel & 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 L�opez -- 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-Gr�udl -- Formal and functional constraints on constituent order and their universality / Peter �Ohl -- On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure / Carsten Breul; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10417557 ER -