Suchergebnisse - "Grammar, Comparative and general Topic and comment"

When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure von Garassino, Davide, Jacob, Daniel

“… This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure. The main aim of the book is …”
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The expression of information structure von Krifka, Manfred, Musan, Renate

“… Information structure deals with the linguistic forms and techniques that support the integration of what is said into the current informational and …”
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Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond von García, Marco García, Uth, Melanie

“… What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject …”
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The Syntax-Information Structure Interface: Clausal Word Order and the Left Periphery in Galician von Gupton, Timothy

“… It is quite remarkable that, after over a half-century of research in generative grammar, there is still uncertainty and debate surrounding the analysis of preverbal subjects in a number of null-subject languages …”
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The Syntax-Information Structure Interface: Evidence from Spanish and English von Casielles-Suárez, Eugenia

“… ). Central questions addressed are the analysis of subjects in Spanish and English (DP vs NP and null vs. preverbal vs. postverbal …”
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Indefinite objects : scrambling, choice functions, and differential marking von López, Luis

“… A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects …”
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Information Structure and its Interfaces von Mereu, Lunella

“… The volume presents recent results in the field of Information Structure based on research on Italian and Italian dialects, and on further studies on several …”
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The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects von Seržant, Ilja A., Kulikov, L. I.

“… In this paper I have examined several instances in which an oblique constituent acquires canonical subject marking, i.e …”
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Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective von Webelhuth, Gert, Sailer, Manfred, Walker, Heike

“… : While extraposition of subject, adjunct and attributive clauses is optional in German, object clauses must appear in the right periphery of the clause …”
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Referring expressions in English and Japanese : patterns of use in dialogue processing von Yoshida, Etsuko

“… It is a major challenge for linguists to explore the relations between referential choice and the discourse structure in dialogues, because, unlike written …”
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Rightward Movement Phenomena in Linguistics von Kamada, Kohji

“… This book demonstrates that some properties of rightward movement phenomena (a cover term referring to sentences in which an element appears to be "displaced" …”
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Subjects in Constructions: Canonical and Non-Canonical von Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa, Huumo, Tuomas

“… From this perspective we focus on non-canonical subjects marked in the dative case, highlighting the complex interaction of lexical items (verbs …”
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Mapping the left periphery von Benincà, Paola, Munaro, Nicola

“… The papers in this volume develop and challenge our understanding of the fine structure of the left periphery, and of the theory of sentence structure in …”
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Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects von Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡. (Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna), Dixon, Robert M. W., 大西, 正幸

“… In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object …”
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On subject and theme : a discourse functional perspective von Hasan, Ruqaiya, Fries, Peter Howard

“… The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme. Theme began its life as a semantic notion in the work …”
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Information Structure and Agreement von Camacho Taboada, María Victoria, Jiménez-Fernández, Ángel, Martín-González, Javier, Reyes-Tejedor, Mariano

“… The existing syntactic accounts of null arguments typically rely either on the specific licensing conditions for different types of empty categories such as …”
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Information structure : theoretical and empirical aspects von Steube, Anita

“… Human languages are economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of utterances only what cannot be supplied by …”
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Diachronic Studies on Information Structure: Language Acquisition and Change von Ferraresi, Gisella, Lühr, Rosemarie

“… In the last few years a lively discussion on information packaging has arisen, where traditional dichotomies Theme/Rheme, Topic/Comment and Focus/Background …”
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Non-Canonical Passives von Alexiadou, Artemis, Schäfer, Florian

“… This paper highlights similarities between two classes of arguably non-canonical passives, namely 'deponent' verbs familiar from Latin, and 'inherent …”
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The Syntax of sentence and text : a festschrift for František Daneš von Daneš, František, Čmejrková, Světla, Štícha, František

“… This is a collection of papers inspired by the work of František Daneš and is published in honour of his 75th birthday. Daneš' international contribution to …”
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