Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)

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.

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
Release date:	July 2006
First published:	July 2006
Editors:	Giuliano Bernini • Marcia L. Schwartz
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	656
Edition:	Reprint 2011
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-015753-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	3-11-015753-5
Barcode:	9783110157536

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