Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure / / edited by Carsten Breul, Edward Göbbel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957072203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010
• ISBN: 9786612775031; 9781282775039; 1282775030; 9789027287847; 9027287848
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 306 p. : ill
• Collana: Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 165
• Altri autori (Persone): BreulCarsten; GöbbelEdward
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Contrastive linguistics; Focus (Linguistics); Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "The present book contains a selection of articles based on papers presented at the conference on 'Contrastive Information Structure Analysis' organised by Carsten Breul at the University of Wuppertal in March 2008"--Pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Carsten Breul, Edward Göbbel & Alexander Thiel -- Contrastive topics and distributed foci as instances of sub-informativity : a comparison of English and German / Volker Gast -- Givenness and discourse anaphors / Luis López -- Constraints on subject-focus mapping in French and English : a contrastive analysis / Knud Lambrecht -- Wh-questions in French and English : mapping syntax to information structure / Paul Boucher -- A comparative perspective on intensive reflexives : English and Hebrew / Dana Cohen -- Focus types and argument asymmetries : a cross-linguistic study in language production / Stavros Skopeteas and Gisbert Fanselow -- Topicality in L1-acquisition : a contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and German / Nicole Hauser-Grüdl -- Formal and ; functional constraints on constituent order and their universality / Peter Öhl -- On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure / Carsten Breul.
• Sommario/riassunto: The paper presents some ideas on the delineation of a more specific contrastive approach to information structure analysis within the larger and more loosely circumscribed comparative area. It will be argued that this delineation can be effected by emphasising the methodological role of the notion tertium comparationis. Ontological and methodological aspects of contrastive information structure analysis will be discussed, and benefits of taking a specifically contrastive approach to information structure will be pointed out. Finally, some lines of argumentation and observations from the preceding chapters of the present volume that can be construed as instances of contrastive information structure analysis will be briefly recapitulated.