Information Structuring of Spoken Language from a Cross-linguistic Perspective

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2016

Information Structuring of Spoken Language from a Cross-linguistic Perspective

Edited by: M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and Robert D. Van Valin

Volume 283 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368758

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About this book

Information structure and the organization of oral texts have been rarely studied crosslinguistically. This book contains studies of the grammatical organization of information in languages from different areas (e.g. Amazonian, Finno-Ugric, South-Asian) from a variety of theoretical angles. It will be a valuable resource for researchers investigating the interaction of morphosyntax and discourse in familiar and less familiar languages.

Author / Editor information

M. M. J. Fernandez-Vest, CNRS & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris; R. D. Van Valin, Jr., Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction M.M.Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and Robert D. Van Valin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Theoretical Approaches to IS
1. Detachment Linguistics and Information Grammar of Oral Languages M.M.Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2. Reference and Cognitive Status: Scalar Inference and Typology Jeanette K. Gundel and Nancy Hedberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Saliency in discourse and sentence form: Zero anaphora and topicalization in Japanese Mitsuaki Shimojo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4. An Overview of Information Structure in three Amazonian Languages Robert D. Van Valin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
II. IS and Spoken language
5. Micro-variation in information structure: There sentences in Italo-Romance Delia Bentley, Francesco Maria Ciconte, Silvio Cruschina and Michael Ramsammy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
6. How does adjacency arise? Grammatical conditions on focus-verb adjacency in Basque Ricardo Etxepare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7. Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations Ritva Laury and Marja-Liisa Helasvuo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
8. Tag questions and focus markers: Evidence from the Tompo dialect of Even Dejan Matić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
9. Syntactic and Prosodic Marking of Contrastiveness in Spoken Chinese Victor Junnan Pan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
10. Demonstratives and Information Structure in Spoken Estonian Heete Sahkai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
III. IS and Discourse Particles
11. Word order and focus particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages Diana Forker and Oleg Belyaev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
12. The discourse particle to and word ordering in Hindi: From grammar to discourse Annie Montaut Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
IV. IS and Language Contacts
13. Discourse Regulating Strategies in Pidgin Madam Fida Bizri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
14. New Information Structuring Processes and Morphosyntactic Change Peter Slomanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Name index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Language index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Students and Teachers of General Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Languages
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 333
Keywords: Information Structure; Typology; Grammatical Theory; Non-Indo-European Languages

eBook

Published: December 14, 2015
ISBN: 9783110368758

Hardcover

Published: December 18, 2015
ISBN: 9783110352061

Paperback

Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9783110577860