Information status and noncanonical word order in English [[electronic resource] /] / Betty J. Birner, Gregory Ward

• Autore: Birner Betty J
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, Pa., : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetto topico: English language - Word order; English language - Discourse analysis
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WardGregory L
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-306) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Preposing; 3 Postposing; 4 Argument Reversal; 5 Noncanonical Word Order and Discourse Structure; 6 Extensions and Implications; Appendix; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English - preposing, postposing, and argument reversal - and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variety of ways in which information can be 'given' or 'new' and shows how an understanding of this variety allows us to account for the distribution of these constructions in discourse. Moreover, the authors show that there exist broad and empirically verifiable functional correspondences within classes of
• Titolo autorizzato: Information status and noncanonical word order in english
• ISBN: 1-283-28033-7; 9786613280336; 90-272-8190-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461431703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 40.