Information Structuring of Spoken Language from a Cross-linguistic Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2015
VI, 333 pages
978-3-11-036875-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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M. M. J. Fernandez-Vest, CNRS & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris; R. D. Van Valin, Jr., Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf.
Content
- Intro
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- I. Theoretical Approaches to IS
- 1. Detachment Linguistics and Information Grammar of Oral Languages
- 2. Reference and Cognitive Status: Scalar Inference and Typology
- 3. Saliency in discourse and sentence form: Zero anaphora and topicalization in Japanese
- 4. An Overview of Information Structure in three Amazonian Languages
- II. IS and Spoken language
- 5. Micro-variation in information structure: There sentences in Italo-Romance
- 6. How does adjacency arise? Grammatical conditions on focus-verb adjacency in Basque
- 7. Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations
- 8. Tag questions and focus markers: Evidence from the Tompo dialect of Even
- 9. Syntactic and Prosodic Marking of Contrastiveness in Spoken Chinese
- 10. Demonstratives and Information Structure in Spoken Estonian
- III. IS and Discourse Particles
- 11. Word order and focus particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages
- 12. The discourse particle to and word ordering in Hindi: From grammar to discourse
- IV. IS and Language Contacts
- 13. Discourse Regulating Strategies in Pidgin Madam
- 14. New Information Structuring Processes and Morphosyntactic Change
- Name index
- Language index
