| Description |
xii, 306 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 165 |
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 165.
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| 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"--Pref. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Carsten Breul, Edward Gobbel & 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 Lopez -- 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-Grudl -- Formal and functional constraints on constituent order and their universality / Peter Ohl -- On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure / Carsten Breul. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Contrastive linguistics.
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Focus (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Breul, Carsten.
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Gobbel, Edward.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789027255488 (alk. paper) |
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9789027287847 (electronic bk.) |
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