Topic and Focus Markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French (Hardcover, New edition)

This book is concerned with the diachronic development of selected topic and focus markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French. On the one hand, it focuses on the development of these structures from their relational meaning to their topic-/ focus-marking meaning, and on the other hand, it is concerned with their current form und use. Thus, Romance topic and focus markers – such as sp. en cuanto a, pt. a propósito de, fr. au niveau de or sentence-initial sp. Lo que as well as clefts and pseudo-clefts – are investigated from a quantitative and qualitative perspective. The author argues that topic markers have procedural meaning and that their function is bound to their syntactic position. An important contribution of this study is the fact that real linguistic evidence (in the form of data from various corpora) is analyzed instead of operating with constructed examples.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Potsdam Linguistic Investigations, 30
Release date:	June 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Anja Hennemann
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	310
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-631-81889-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General Promotions
LSN:	3-631-81889-0
Barcode:	9783631818893

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