Structures of Focus and Grammatical Relations
1st Edition
Published on 21. July 2003
Book
Hardback
VIII, 260 pages
978-3-484-30477-2 (ISBN)
Description
The seven articles of this volume take up crucial aspects of information structure and grammatical form. Special attention is paid to the definition of topic, focus and contrast, to the language specific devices for expressing different types of these information structural notions, and to the typological characterisation of languages as to discourse configurationality. The investigation of grammatical relations includes the interplay between syntactic functions, morphological case and thematic structure, and the study of the functional and formal complexity of passive in Germanic languages.
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Series
Edition
Reprint 2013
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
Zahlr. Abb. u. Tab.
Num. figs. and tabs
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
645 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-484-30477-2 (9783484304772)
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Jorunn Hetland | Valéria Molnár
Structures of Focus and Grammatical Relations
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Content
Contents: Jorunn Hetland/Valeria Molnar, Preface. - Jorunn Hetland, Contrast, the fall-rise accent, and Information Focus. - Lars Heltoft, Iconic and categorical focus systems in Scandinavian. - Marja Jaerventausta, Are Finnish null subjects topics? - Valeria Molnar/Marja Jaerventausta, Discourse configurationality in Finnish and Hungarian. - Johanna Bardal, The relation between morphological case, syntactic functions and thematic roles in Icelandic: A frequency analysis. - Barbro Landen/Valeria Molnar, Passive as activity aspect. On the relation between aspectuality and passive: A comparative study of German and Swedish. - Johanna Bardal/Valeria Molnar, The passive in Icelandic, compared to Mainland Scandinavian.