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La Prédication existentielle dans les langues naturelles : valeurs et repérages, structures et modalités
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ISBN: 9782858313624 2858313628 2858313636 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris : Presses de l’Inalco,

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Les articles rassemblés dans ce recueil traitent de l’expression des valeurs existentielles dans différentes langues du monde. Le caractère universel de la problématique et sa richesse sont illustrés par la diversité des approches théoriques permettant de constater les similitudes et les différences de son expression d’une langue à l’autre. L’originalité de l’ouvrage ne réside pas seulement dans la description de la variété des structures existentielles, porteurs de valeurs possessives, locatives ou attributives, elle consiste également dans leur lecture multiple. La structure du recueil a été arbitrairement organisée en deux parties. Dans les articles de la première partie, la prédication existentielle est envisagée d’un point de vue typologique, dans ceux de la deuxième partie, c’est une démarche énonciative et pragmatique qui est appliquée. Cette répartition est toutefois quelque peu artificielle, dans la mesure où tous les auteurs envisagent les traits sémantiques, syntaxiques et formels des constructions existentielles et, pour certains articles, les paramètres contextuels quelle que soit la langue concernée. La prédication existentielle est présentée par les auteurs comme une opération spécifique de repérage d’un terme par rapport à l’autre qui se répercute sur le marquage non canonique des constituants propositionnels, ainsi que par l’emploi des marqueurs d’existence spécifiques. L’analyse typologique et l’approche énonciative se complètent et ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives dans la recherche linguistique sur l’expression de l’existence dans les langues du monde. The articles in this collection deal with the expression of existential values in several languages of the world. The diversity of theoretical approach taken by the authors illustrates richness and universality of this problem, and demonstrates the similarities and the differences of its expression in natural languages. The original aspect of the collection is not only due to the description of…


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Objects and information structure.
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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"--


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Contrasts and positions in information structure
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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.


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Autour des verbes : constructions et interprétations
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ISBN: 9789027231390 9027231397 1299794742 9027271445 9789027271440 9781299794740 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins

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This paper is intended as an contrastive study of present narrative in French and in Japanese within the framework of Mental Space Theory. In French the so called "historical present" is a metaphorical use of present tense intending to convey past events as if it were now present before the speaker's eye. But in Japanese the present tense is used to describe the state of past situations without any stylistic effects. The difference comes from the different tense systems of the two languages. In French all events must be indicated from the speaker's position, but Japanese tense indicate only the relation between the event and the v-point spaces. This may account for the use of the present tense in Japanese.


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The expression of information structure
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ISBN: 9783110260083 9783110261608 311026160X 9783110262148 3110262142 3110260085 1283627876 9786613940322 Year: 2012 Volume: 5 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter Mouton

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Information structure deals with the linguistic forms and techniques that support the integration of what is said into the current informational and attentional state of the addressee. This shows in categories like topic-comment structuring, focus to highlight expressions, marking of givenness and of presupposed information, and ways to indicate that the information provided is restricted. The book relates infor-mation structure to theoretical models of grammar, to computation and modelling and brings together what is known about the expression of information structure in human language with regard to its empirical investigation, its psycholinguistic aspects and the acquisition of information structure. Since the need to integrate what is said into the informational and attentional state of the addressee is central to all human communication, it is not surprising that all natural languages have developed devices to express information structural cate-gories. To illustrate this, the book also provides concrete and theory independent descriptions of the information structural encoding strategies of individual languages of different types . The book can be used as a textbook appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses; it also provides information for linguists that are not specialists in the field.

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