Information status and noncanonical word order in English / / Betty J. Birner, Gregory Ward
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| Autore: |
Birner Betty J
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| Titolo: |
Information status and noncanonical word order in English / / Betty J. Birner, Gregory Ward
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1998 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 401/.41 |
| Soggetto topico: | English language - Word order |
| English language - Discourse analysis | |
| Altri autori: |
WardGregory L
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| 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.: | 9911101115603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 40.