
Architecture of Topic
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This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The purpose of the volume is to discuss the universal properties of topics and, at the same time, to document the range of discourse-semantic and grammatical variation within this phenomenon in European languages.
The volume is structured accordingly: (i) theoretical foundations of topicality in grammar and discourse; (ii) discourse-semantic correlates of topicality; (iii) variation in the grammatical (external and internal) encoding of topicality; (iv) topics from the diachronic perspective. The articles take different perspectives, including contrastive studies of modern languages, studies on diachronic development, and typological generalizations. They also take into consideration various types of empirical data - introspective data, semi-spontaneously produced data, experimental data and language corpora.
The articles in this volume show that the concept of topic is necessary for the description and explanation of a number of discourse-semantic phenomena. They present a state of the art account of the architecture of topic while making recent research on the phenomenon accessible to a wider readership.
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V. Molnár , Lunds Universitet, Sweden; V. Egerland , Lunds Universitet, Sweden; S. Winkler , Universität Tübingen, Germany
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Exploring the Architecture of Topic at the Interface of Grammar and Discourse
- Part I: Semantic and Discourse-pragmatic Correlates of Topicality
- Topics and Givenness
- The Role of Topics in Licensing Anaphoric Relations in VP-ellipsis
- Topic Marking and Illocutionary Force
- Topics, Conversational Dynamics and the Root/Non-root Distinction: Adverbial Clauses at the Discourse-syntax Interface
- Part II: Variation in the Grammatical Encoding of Topicality: Clause-internal, Clause-external and Null Topics
- Why Topicalize VP?
- Information-structural Constraints on PP Topicalization from NPs
- Stage Topics and their Architecture
- Topicality in Icelandic: Null Arguments and Narrative Inversion
- Apropos the Topic
- Discourse Topic vs. Sentence Topic Exploiting the Right Periphery of German Verb-second Sentences
- PART III: Topics from the Diachronic Perspective
- Topichood and the Margins of the German Clause from a Historical Perspective
- Stylistic Fronting at the Interface of Syntax and Discourse
- Index
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