Focus and background in Romance languages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andreas Dufter, Daniel Jacob

• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Disciplina: 440
• Soggetto topico: Romance languages; Language and languages - Europe
• Altri autori: DufterAndreas JacobDaniel
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Andreas Dufter and Daniel Jacob -- Topicalization and focalization in French SI-clauses / Jeanne Aptekman -- Discourse functions of fronted foci in Italian and Spanish / Lisa Brunetti -- Clefting and discourse organization: comparing Germanic and Romance / Andreas Dufter -- Cleft sentences from Old Portuguese to modern Portuguese / Mary A. Kato and Ilza Ribeiro -- Fronting and verum focus in Spanish / Manuel Leonetti and Victoria Escandell-Vidal -- Additive focus particles in bilingual language acquisition / Estelle Leray -- Major constituent order, information packaging, and narrative structure in two Middle French texts / Claude Muller -- Grammatical and contextual restrictions on focal alternatives / Edgar Onea and Klaus von Heusinger -- Verb placement in Old Portuguese / Esther Rinke -- Topic, focus, and background in Italian clauses / Vieri Samek-Lodovici.
• Sommario/riassunto: Papers presented at a workshop, Focus and background in Romance languages, that convened during the 30th Romanistentag, in Vienna, Austria, 23-27 September 2007.
• Titolo autorizzato: Focus and background in Romance languages
• ISBN: 1-282-16990-4; 9786612169908; 90-272-8952-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910143100303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language companion series ; ; 112.