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Spanish language --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Cognitive grammar. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Intention (Logic) --- Oral communication. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Structural linguistics. --- Focus (Linguistics). --- Intention (Logic).
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Grammar --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Focus (Linguistique) --- Grammaire générative --- Generative grammar. --- Focus (Linguistics). --- Grammaire générative
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German language --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Prosodic analysis --- Prosodic analysis. --- Focus (Linguistics). --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Semantics. --- German language - Semantics --- German language - Prosodic analysis
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"This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure. The main aim of the book is to assess the impact of data that seem to run against commonly accepted tenets in this field. Such 'unexpected' or even 'paradoxical' evidence can indeed be precious for testing the validity of current pragmatic and discourse analyses. The contributions to this book, relying on different theoretical frameworks and delving into cross-linguistic and language-internal variation as well as language contact, tackle a wide range of phenomena that go to the core of the discipline and, in some cases, challenge its foundations. Ultimately, this volume shows that in order to appreciate the relation between linguistic structures and the context, it is of uttermost importance to rely on complex discourse models, which are able to account for the fundamental role of inferential mechanisms and rhetorical strategies exploited by speakers"--
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Lexicology. Semantics --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Focus (Linguistique) --- Focus (Taalwetenschap) --- German language --- Semantics --- Grammar
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Grammar --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Focus (Linguistique) --- Focus (Taalwetenschap) --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Topic and comment
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Dieser Band versteht sich als Beitrag zur historischen Pragmatik des Italienischen. Ziel ist es, zu zeigen, dass sich die altitalienische Syntax nicht adäquat beschreiben lässt, wenn man die pragmatische Funktion der Sprache ausklammert. Untersucht werden in narrativen Texten des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts syntaktisch markierte Konstruktionen, die dem Ausdruck bestimmter Diskursfunktionen - hauptsächlich der Topic- und Focus-Markierung - dienen.
Italian language --- Grammar. --- Topic and comment. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Italien (langue) --- Avant 1300 --- Grammaire.
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"Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview of the complex field, the contributions of the current volume capitalize on, but also work much further beyond the baseline of the established insights. They offer analyses of (a) new data types within and sometimes across several Germanic languages (e.g. varieties/stages of German, Dutch, or Norwegian), encompassing different classes of particles and a variety of syntactic-semantic as well as usage-based aspects; (b) the classical dichotomy between languages like German and English when it comes to the availability of modal particles both synchronically and diachronically; (c) crucial integrated insight from non-Germanic languages such as French, Hungarian, Italian, Mandarin, or Vietnamese. A number of mostly interface-based proposals of several languages as well as further generalizations are put on the table for both expert and novice readers in the field"--
Grammar, Comparative and general --- Discourse markers. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Modality (Linguistics) --- Particles.
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This book contains a collection of papers exploring the cross-linguistic expression of topic and focus. A diverse set of perspectives from some of the leading scholars in the areas of semantics and intonation are represented in the collection, which is based on papers presented at the Topic and Focus Workshop at the 2001 LSA Summer Institute in Santa Barbara. This book is unique in the breadth of its typological coverage of topic and focus phenomena. Material is presented from nine languages, including several that are severely under-documented from a theoretical perspective. The expression of topic and focus are integral aspects of linguistic communication that introduce the content of discourse and emphasize its most crucial elements. Topic and focus phenomena are complex and involve both a meaning and a prosodic component. This book is the first collection of papers devoted to the rigorous examination of both semantic and intonational features of topic and focus from a broad typological perspective
Cross-linguistic perspectives. --- Focus (Linguistics). --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Intonation (Phonetics). --- Intonation. --- Meaning.
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"Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview of the complex field, the contributions of the current volume capitalize on, but also work much further beyond the baseline of the established insights. They offer analyses of (a) new data types within and sometimes across several Germanic languages (e.g. varieties/stages of German, Dutch, or Norwegian), encompassing different classes of particles and a variety of syntactic-semantic as well as usage-based aspects; (b) the classical dichotomy between languages like German and English when it comes to the availability of modal particles both synchronically and diachronically; (c) crucial integrated insight from non-Germanic languages such as French, Hungarian, Italian, Mandarin, or Vietnamese. A number of mostly interface-based proposals of several languages as well as further generalizations are put on the table for both expert and novice readers in the field"--
Grammar, Comparative and general --- Discourse markers. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Modality (Linguistics) --- Particles. --- Discourse markers --- Particles