Spontaneous spoken language : syntax and discourse / / Jim Miller and Regina Weinert

• Autore: Miller J. E (James Edward), <1942->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, England ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2009; ©1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (482 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Colloquial language; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics
• Persona (resp. second.): WeinertRegina
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Sentences and Clauses; 3 Clauses: Type, Combination, and Integration; 4 Noun Phrases: Complexity and Configuration; 5 Focus Constructions; 6 Focus Constructions: Clefts and like; 7 Historical Linguistics and Typology; 8 Written Language, First Language Acquisition, and Education; Epilogue; References; Postscript; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from English, German, and Russian, they develop a systematic analysis of spoken English and highlight properties that hold across languages. The authors argue that the differences in syntax and the construction of discourse between spontaneous speech and written language bear on various areas of linguistic theory, apart from having obvious implications for syntactic analysis. In particular, they bear on typology, Chomskyan theories of first language acquisi
• Titolo autorizzato: Spontaneous spoken language
• ISBN: 1-282-38380-9; 9786612383809; 0-19-154382-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820210503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II