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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820210503321

Autore

Miller J. E (James Edward), <1942->

Titolo

Spontaneous spoken language : syntax and discourse / / Jim Miller and Regina Weinert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2009

©1998

ISBN

1-282-38380-9

9786612383809

0-19-154382-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (482 p.)

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Colloquial language

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Psycholinguistics

Sociolinguistics

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Sentences and Clauses; 3 Clauses: Type, Combination, and Integration; 4 Noun Phrases: Complexity and Configuration; 5 Focus Constructions; 6 Focus Constructions: Clefts and like; 7 Historical Linguistics and Typology; 8 Written Language, First Language Acquisition, and Education; Epilogue; References; Postscript; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from English, German, and Russian, they develop a systematic analysis of spoken English and highlight properties that hold across languages. The authors argue that the differences in syntax and the construction of discourse between spontaneous speech and written language bear on various areas of linguistic theory, apart from having obvious implications for syntactic analysis. In particular, they bear on typology, Chomskyan theories of first language acquisi