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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793400103321

Titolo

Focus realization in Romance and beyond / / edited by Marco García García, Melanie Uth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

90-272-6348-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 pages)

Collana

Studies in language companion series ; ; Volume 201

Disciplina

440/.045

Soggetti

Romance languages - Topic and comment

Focus (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: core issues of focus realization in Romance / Melanie Uth and Marco García García -- 2. Language variation at the prosody-syntax interface: Focus in European Spanish / Maria del Mar Vanrell and Olga Fernández-Soriano -- 3. Focus realization at the prosody-syntax interface: Yucatecan Spanish opposed to Standard Mexican Spanish / Melanie Uth -- 4. Acceptability and frequency in Spanish focus marking / Steffen Heidinger -- 5. Prosodic nuclear patterns in narrow and broad focus utterances: Pragmatic and social factors in Central Mexican Spanish / Pedro Martín Butragueño and Érika Mendoza -- 6. Distinguishing contrast and focus at PF: A view from Italian / Jacopo Torregrossa -- 7. Presupposed modality / Uli Reich -- 8. NP exclamatives and focus / Marco García García -- 9. Adverbial cleft sentences in Italian, French and English: A comparative perspective / Anna-Maria De Cesare and Davide Garassino -- 10. Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: A case of pragmatic borrowing? / Carola Trips and Achim Stein -- 11. Developing strategies for encoding additive and contrastive relations in French and German child narratives / Christine Dimroth and Sandra Benazzo -- 12. Focus, prosody, and subject positions in L3 Spanish: Analyzing data from German learners with Italian and European Portuguese as heritage languages / Christoph



Gabriel and Jonas Grünke -- Index.