Information structuring of spoken language from a cross-linguistic perspective


edited by M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest ; Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
Bok Engelsk 2016 · Electronic books.
Medvirkende
Omfang
1 online resource (340 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Table of contents ; Introduction ; I. Theoretical Approaches to IS ; 1. Detachment Linguistics and Information Grammar of Oral Languages ; 2. Reference and Cognitive Status: Scalar Inference and Typology. - 12. The discourse particle to and word ordering in Hindi: From grammar to discourse IV. IS and Language Contacts ; 13. Discourse Regulating Strategies in Pidgin Madam ; 14. New Information Structuring Processes and Morphosyntactic Change ; Name index ; Language index. - 3. Saliency in discourse and sentence form: Zero anaphora and topicalization in Japanese 4. An Overview of Information Structure in three Amazonian Languages ; II. IS and Spoken language ; 5. Micro-variation in information structure: There sentences in Italo-Romance. - 6. How does adjacency arise? Grammatical conditions on focus-verb adjacency in Basque 7. Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations ; 8. Tag questions and focus markers: Evidence from the Tompo dialect of Even. - 9. Syntactic and Prosodic Marking of Contrastiveness in Spoken Chinese 10. Demonstratives and Information Structure in Spoken Estonian ; III. IS and Discourse Particles ; 11. Word order and focus particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages. - Information structure and the organization of oral texts have been rarely studied crosslinguistically. This book contains studies of the grammatical organization of information in languages from different areas (such as Amazonian, Finno-Ugric, South-Asian) from a variety of theoretical angle - Omslaget
Emner
Sjanger
Dewey
415
ISBN
9783110352061 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN(galt)
9783110368758 (e-book). - 9783110393354 (epub)

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