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ID  - 361049
TI  - Objects and information structure
AU  - Dalrymple, Mary
AU  - Nikolaeva, Irina
PY  - 2011
SN  - 9780521199858 0521199859 9780511993473 9781107627376 9781139082242 1139082248 0511993471 9781139077682 1139077686 9781139079976 1107627370 1107215390 1280775866 113907542X 9786613686251 1139079972 1139069667
PB  - Cambridge Cambridge University Press
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Semantics.
KW  - Focus (Linguistics)
KW  - Syntax.
KW  - Topic and comment.
KW  - 801.56
KW  - Syntaxis. Semantiek
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - General
KW  - 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek
KW  - Focus (Linguistics).
KW  - General.
KW  - Focus (linguistics).
KW  - Grammar, comparative and general
KW  - Language arts & disciplines
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Formal semantics
KW  - Semasiology
KW  - Semiology (Semantics)
KW  - Comparative linguistics
KW  - Information theory
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Lexicology
KW  - Meaning (Psychology)
KW  - Functional sentence perspective (Grammar)
KW  - Predicate and subject (Grammar)
KW  - Subject and predicate (Grammar)
KW  - Theme and rheme
KW  - Topic and comment (Grammar)
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Topic and comment
KW  - Subject and predicate
KW  - Sémantique
KW  - Arts and Humanities
KW  - Language & Linguistics
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Philology
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
KW  - Focus (linguistique)
KW  - Sujet et prédicat
KW  - Syntaxe
KW  - Sémantique
KW  - Sujet et prédicat
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:361049
AB  - "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"
ER  -