Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages / / edited by Kristin Bech, Kristine Gunn Eide |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
Disciplina | 430/.045 |
Collana | Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics Today |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and content
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Germanic languages - Grammar, Comparative - Romance Romance languages - Grammar, Comparative - Germanic Language and languages - Variation Comparative linguistics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 90-272-7046-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Information Structure and Syntactic Changein Germanic and Romance Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; PartI. Information-structural categories and corpus annotation; Part II.Changes on the interface between syntax and information structure; Part III.Comparisons on the interface between syntax and information structure; Acknowledgements; Information structure and syntax in oldGermanic and Romance languages; 1. Introduction; 2. Approaches to information structure and syntax in historical linguistics; 3. Annotated corpora; 4. The structure of the book; References
The theoretical foundations of givenness annotation1. Introduction; 1.1 Theory and practice; 2. Theory; 2.1 Discourse referents; 2.2 Taggables; 2.3 Reference contexts; 2.4 Contexts and reference resolution in dynamic semantics; 2.4.1 The discourse context; 2.4.2 The encyclopaedic context and the situation context; 2.4.3 The scenario context; 2.4.4 Embedded contexts and non-specificity; 2.5 Generic reference; 2.6 The PROIEL tagset; 3. Annotation in practice; 3.1 General; 3.2 Specificity - nonspec vs. new; 3.3 Genericity; 3.3.1 kind vs. nonspec; 3.3.2 kind vs. acc-gen; 3.4 Bridging 3.4.1 acc-inf vs old3.4.2 acc-inf vs new, nonspec or no tag - the limits to inference; 4. Evaluation and conclusions; 4.1 The PROIEL scheme and other givenness annotation schemes; 4.2 Annotation workflow and interannotator agreement; 4.3 Data sample; 4.4 Conclusions; References; Testing the theory; 1. Introduction; 2. The data; 3. 'Old/given' information; 4. Inferables; 5. 'New' information; 6. Conclusions; Appendix A: Notes on data collection; References; Quantifying information structure changein English; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Old English V2 syntax and the subject 1.2 The changing role of the English subject1.3 Hypotheses; 2. Corpora; 2.1 Referential status; 2.2 Enriched texts; 3. Experiments; 3.1 Subject ellipsis; 3.2 Subject referent switch; 3.2.1 A definition of subject-referent switch; 3.2.2 Measuring subject-referent switch; 3.2.3 Subject-referent switch results; 3.2.4 Subject chain distribution; 3.3 Subject animacy; 3.3.1 Determining subject animacy; 3.3.2 Subject animacy results; 3.4 Pre-subject linking; 3.4.1 Clause-initial linking; 3.4.2 Determining pre-subject linking; 3.4.3 Pre-subject linking results; 4. Conclusions and discussion 5. SourcesReferences; Tracing overlap in function in historical corpora; 1. Introduction; 2. The passive and object fronting as 'information-rearrangers'; 3. Comparing the function of passives and object fronting in Old English; 3.1 Information status categories; 3.2 Results for long passives; 3.3 Results for object fronting; 4. The frequency of topicalization and passivization in the history of English; 5. Conclusion; References; Referential properties of the full and reduced forms of the definite article in German; 1. Introduction 2. The distribution of full and reduced definite articles in Present-day German: Some theoretical concepts |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465629103321 |
Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
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Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages / / edited by Kristin Bech, Kristine Gunn Eide |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
Disciplina | 430/.045 |
Collana | Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics Today |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and content
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Germanic languages - Grammar, Comparative - Romance Romance languages - Grammar, Comparative - Germanic Language and languages - Variation Comparative linguistics |
ISBN | 90-272-7046-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Information Structure and Syntactic Changein Germanic and Romance Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; PartI. Information-structural categories and corpus annotation; Part II.Changes on the interface between syntax and information structure; Part III.Comparisons on the interface between syntax and information structure; Acknowledgements; Information structure and syntax in oldGermanic and Romance languages; 1. Introduction; 2. Approaches to information structure and syntax in historical linguistics; 3. Annotated corpora; 4. The structure of the book; References
The theoretical foundations of givenness annotation1. Introduction; 1.1 Theory and practice; 2. Theory; 2.1 Discourse referents; 2.2 Taggables; 2.3 Reference contexts; 2.4 Contexts and reference resolution in dynamic semantics; 2.4.1 The discourse context; 2.4.2 The encyclopaedic context and the situation context; 2.4.3 The scenario context; 2.4.4 Embedded contexts and non-specificity; 2.5 Generic reference; 2.6 The PROIEL tagset; 3. Annotation in practice; 3.1 General; 3.2 Specificity - nonspec vs. new; 3.3 Genericity; 3.3.1 kind vs. nonspec; 3.3.2 kind vs. acc-gen; 3.4 Bridging 3.4.1 acc-inf vs old3.4.2 acc-inf vs new, nonspec or no tag - the limits to inference; 4. Evaluation and conclusions; 4.1 The PROIEL scheme and other givenness annotation schemes; 4.2 Annotation workflow and interannotator agreement; 4.3 Data sample; 4.4 Conclusions; References; Testing the theory; 1. Introduction; 2. The data; 3. 'Old/given' information; 4. Inferables; 5. 'New' information; 6. Conclusions; Appendix A: Notes on data collection; References; Quantifying information structure changein English; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Old English V2 syntax and the subject 1.2 The changing role of the English subject1.3 Hypotheses; 2. Corpora; 2.1 Referential status; 2.2 Enriched texts; 3. Experiments; 3.1 Subject ellipsis; 3.2 Subject referent switch; 3.2.1 A definition of subject-referent switch; 3.2.2 Measuring subject-referent switch; 3.2.3 Subject-referent switch results; 3.2.4 Subject chain distribution; 3.3 Subject animacy; 3.3.1 Determining subject animacy; 3.3.2 Subject animacy results; 3.4 Pre-subject linking; 3.4.1 Clause-initial linking; 3.4.2 Determining pre-subject linking; 3.4.3 Pre-subject linking results; 4. Conclusions and discussion 5. SourcesReferences; Tracing overlap in function in historical corpora; 1. Introduction; 2. The passive and object fronting as 'information-rearrangers'; 3. Comparing the function of passives and object fronting in Old English; 3.1 Information status categories; 3.2 Results for long passives; 3.3 Results for object fronting; 4. The frequency of topicalization and passivization in the history of English; 5. Conclusion; References; Referential properties of the full and reduced forms of the definite article in German; 1. Introduction 2. The distribution of full and reduced definite articles in Present-day German: Some theoretical concepts |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792157003321 |
Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages / / edited by Kristin Bech, Kristine Gunn Eide |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
Disciplina | 430/.045 |
Collana | Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics Today |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and content
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Germanic languages - Grammar, Comparative - Romance Romance languages - Grammar, Comparative - Germanic Language and languages - Variation Comparative linguistics |
ISBN | 90-272-7046-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Information Structure and Syntactic Changein Germanic and Romance Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; PartI. Information-structural categories and corpus annotation; Part II.Changes on the interface between syntax and information structure; Part III.Comparisons on the interface between syntax and information structure; Acknowledgements; Information structure and syntax in oldGermanic and Romance languages; 1. Introduction; 2. Approaches to information structure and syntax in historical linguistics; 3. Annotated corpora; 4. The structure of the book; References
The theoretical foundations of givenness annotation1. Introduction; 1.1 Theory and practice; 2. Theory; 2.1 Discourse referents; 2.2 Taggables; 2.3 Reference contexts; 2.4 Contexts and reference resolution in dynamic semantics; 2.4.1 The discourse context; 2.4.2 The encyclopaedic context and the situation context; 2.4.3 The scenario context; 2.4.4 Embedded contexts and non-specificity; 2.5 Generic reference; 2.6 The PROIEL tagset; 3. Annotation in practice; 3.1 General; 3.2 Specificity - nonspec vs. new; 3.3 Genericity; 3.3.1 kind vs. nonspec; 3.3.2 kind vs. acc-gen; 3.4 Bridging 3.4.1 acc-inf vs old3.4.2 acc-inf vs new, nonspec or no tag - the limits to inference; 4. Evaluation and conclusions; 4.1 The PROIEL scheme and other givenness annotation schemes; 4.2 Annotation workflow and interannotator agreement; 4.3 Data sample; 4.4 Conclusions; References; Testing the theory; 1. Introduction; 2. The data; 3. 'Old/given' information; 4. Inferables; 5. 'New' information; 6. Conclusions; Appendix A: Notes on data collection; References; Quantifying information structure changein English; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Old English V2 syntax and the subject 1.2 The changing role of the English subject1.3 Hypotheses; 2. Corpora; 2.1 Referential status; 2.2 Enriched texts; 3. Experiments; 3.1 Subject ellipsis; 3.2 Subject referent switch; 3.2.1 A definition of subject-referent switch; 3.2.2 Measuring subject-referent switch; 3.2.3 Subject-referent switch results; 3.2.4 Subject chain distribution; 3.3 Subject animacy; 3.3.1 Determining subject animacy; 3.3.2 Subject animacy results; 3.4 Pre-subject linking; 3.4.1 Clause-initial linking; 3.4.2 Determining pre-subject linking; 3.4.3 Pre-subject linking results; 4. Conclusions and discussion 5. SourcesReferences; Tracing overlap in function in historical corpora; 1. Introduction; 2. The passive and object fronting as 'information-rearrangers'; 3. Comparing the function of passives and object fronting in Old English; 3.1 Information status categories; 3.2 Results for long passives; 3.3 Results for object fronting; 4. The frequency of topicalization and passivization in the history of English; 5. Conclusion; References; Referential properties of the full and reduced forms of the definite article in German; 1. Introduction 2. The distribution of full and reduced definite articles in Present-day German: Some theoretical concepts |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822629803321 |
Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
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