Eintrag

Titel

Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe

Personen

Giuliano Bernini, Marcia L. Schwartz

Jahr

2006

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

Mouton de Gruyter

Ort

Amsterdam, Berlin, New York

Reihe

Empirical approaches to language typology

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch
Estnisch
Finnisch
Georgisch
Romanisch
Slawisch
Türkisch
Ungarisch

Schlagwörter

Diskurskohärenz
Morphosyntax
Pragmatik
Satzstruktur

Beiträge

• Schroeder: Articles and article systems in some areas of Europe
• Sornicola: Interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors on basic word order in the languages of Europe

Abstract

The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.

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