Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure [electronic resource] / edited by Carsten Breul, Edward G�obbel.
Series: Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 165.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010.Description: xii, 306 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 415 22
- P291 .C573 2010eb
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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 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.
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