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.
The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.
Introduction |
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M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest |
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I Theoretical Approaches to IS |
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1 Detachment Linguistics and Information Grammar of Oral Languages |
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M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest |
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2 Reference and Cognitive Status: Scalar Inferences and Typology |
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3 Saliency in Discourse and Sentence Form: Zero Anaphora and Topicalization in Japanese |
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4 An Overview of Information Structure in three Amazonian Languages |
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II IS and Spoken language |
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5 Micro-variation in Information Structure: Existential Constructions in Italo-Romance |
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6 How does Adjacency arise? Grammatical Conditions on Focus-verb Adjacency in Basque |
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7 Detached NPs with Relative Clauses in Finnish Conversations |
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8 Tag Questions and Focus Markers: Evidence from Even |
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9 Syntactic and Prosodic Marking of Contrastiveness in Oral Mandarin |
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10 Demonstratives and IS in Spoken Estonian |
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III IS and Discourse Particles |
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11 Word Order and Focus Particles in Nakh-Daghestanian Languages |
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12 The Discourse Particle to and Word Ordering in Hindi: from Grammar to Discourse |
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IV IS and Language Contacts |
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13 Information Structuring Strategies in Pidgin Madam |
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14 New Information Structuring Processes and Morphosyntactic Change |
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Name index |
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Language index |
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M. M. J. Fernandez-Vest, CNRS & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris; R. D. Van Valin, Jr., Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf.