Eintrag

Titel

Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure

Personen

Carsten Breul, Edward Göbbel

Jahr

2010

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Reihe

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Band

165

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch
Französisch
Georgisch
Hebräisch
Katalanisch
Ungarisch

Schlagwörter

Informationsstruktur
Kontrastiv

Beiträge

• Gast: Contrastive topics and distributed foci as instances of sub-informativity: A comparison of English and German
• Breul: On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure
• Hauser-Grüdl: Topicality in L1-acquisition: A contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and German

Abstract

This volume presents original comparative and contrastive research into various aspects of information structure (topic, focus, contrastivity, givenness, anaphoricity) as well as into forms and structures whose realisation depends on information-structural factors (clefts, dislocations, reflexives, null subjects, prosodic features, interrogatives) in a number of different languages (Catalan, English, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew, Hungarian). Each contribution emphasises differences or commonalities between the languages under investigation with respect to the realisation of information structural categories or with respect to the information structural implications of a given form or structure. The specific comparative-contrastive perspective of the volume makes a substantial contribution towards a better understanding of language specific and universal aspects of information structure. It raises significant questions and provides solutions for the formal representation and the functional properties of information structural categories.

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