Information structuring of spoken language from a cross-linguistic perspective / / edited by M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest ; Robert D. Van Valin, Jr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460870003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 3-11-036875-7; 3-11-039335-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Collana: Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; Volume 283
• Classificazione: ER 960
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment; Phrase structure grammar; Conversation analysis; Speech acts (Linguistics); Focus (Linguistics); Psycholinguistics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Detachment Linguistics and Information Grammar of Oral Languages -- 2. Reference and Cognitive Status: Scalar Inference and Typology -- 3. Saliency in discourse and sentence form: Zero anaphora and topicalization in Japanese -- 4. An Overview of Information Structure in three Amazonian Languages -- 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 -- 11. Word order and focus particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages -- 12. The discourse particle to and word ordering in Hindi: From grammar to discourse -- 13. Discourse Regulating Strategies in Pidgin Madam -- 14. New Information Structuring Processes and Morphosyntactic Change -- Name index -- Language index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 (e.g. Amazonian, Finno-Ugric, South-Asian) from a variety of theoretical angles. It will be a valuable resource for researchers investigating the interaction of morphosyntax and discourse in familiar and less familiar languages.