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ISBN: 9780521199858 0521199859 9780511993473 9781107627376 9781139082242 1139082248 0511993471 9781139077682 1139077686 9781139079976 1107627370 1107215390 1280775866 113907542X 9786613686251 1139079972 1139069667 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press
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"In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how differential object marking is affected by information structure, the structuring of the utterance in accordance with the informational value of its elements and contextual factors. Marked objects tend to be associated with old information or information that the sentence is about, while unmarked objects tend to express new information. The book also sheds light on grammatical patterning in languages with differential object marking: in some languages marked and unmarked objects have identical grammatical properties, whereas in other languages marked objects are more active in syntax. Finally, it provides a theory of the historical changes that lead to the emergence of various patterns of differential object marking"--
Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Syntax. --- Topic and comment. --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- General --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Focus (Linguistics). --- General. --- Focus (linguistics). --- Grammar, comparative and general --- Language arts & disciplines --- Semantics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Syntax --- Discourse analysis --- Topic and comment --- Subject and predicate --- Sémantique --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Focus (linguistique) --- Sujet et prédicat --- Syntaxe --- Sémantique --- Sujet et prédicat
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ISBN: 9781107001985 9780511740084 9781107595767 9781139525701 1139525700 9781139528092 1139528092 1283574721 9781283574723 0511740085 1107001986 1107226686 113953971X 9786613887177 1139526901 1139531565 1139530372 1107595762 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press
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Information structure, or the way the information in a sentence is 'divided' into categories such as topic, focus, comment, background, and old versus new information, is one of the most widely debated topics in linguistics. This volume incorporates exciting work on the relationship between syntax and information structure. The contributors are united in rejecting accounts that assume designated syntactic positions associated with specific information-structural interpretations, and aim instead to derive information-structural conditions on word order and other phenomena from the way syntax and syntax-external systems interact. Beyond this shared aim, the authors of the various chapters advocate a number of approaches, based on different types of data (syntactic, semantic, phonological/phonetic) from a range of languages. The book is aimed at specialists in syntax and/or information structure, as well as students and linguists in related fields keen to familiarise themselves with current issues in this fascinating area of research.
Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Syntaxe --- Linguistique contrastive --- Emphase --- Sujet et prédicat (linguistique) --- Contrastive linguistics. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Syntax. --- Topic and comment. --- General. --- Focus (Linguistics). --- Focus (linguistics). --- Grammar, comparative and general --- Language arts & disciplines --- Syntaxe. --- Linguistique contrastive. --- Emphase. --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Discourse analysis --- Linguistics --- Subject and predicate --- Topic and comment --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
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