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Eurotyp : Typology of Languages in Europe. 8, Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe / ed. by Giuliano Bernini, Marcia L. Schwartz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; 20-8Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (632 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110157536
  • 9783110892222
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.44094 22
LOC classification:
  • P380 .P73 2006eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
i-iv -- General Preface -- Contents -- Contents detailed -- Contributors -- I. General issue -- Introduction -- Spoken and written language -- II. From function to form -- Sentence topics in the languages of Europe and beyond -- Focus in the languages of Europe -- Deixis and anaphora: Some case studies -- Theticity -- III. From form to function -- The de-accenting of given information: A cognitive universal? -- Interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors on basic word order in the languages of Europe -- Articles and article systems in some areas of Europe -- Subject index. Language index. Author index
Summary: The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.
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i-iv -- General Preface -- Contents -- Contents detailed -- Contributors -- I. General issue -- Introduction -- Spoken and written language -- II. From function to form -- Sentence topics in the languages of Europe and beyond -- Focus in the languages of Europe -- Deixis and anaphora: Some case studies -- Theticity -- III. From form to function -- The de-accenting of given information: A cognitive universal? -- Interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors on basic word order in the languages of Europe -- Articles and article systems in some areas of Europe -- Subject index. Language index. Author index

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The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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