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A pesar de la relevancia que ha cobrado durante los últimos años el estudio de la "estructura informativa", hay a la fecha relativamente pocos volúmenes dedicados al tema disponibles para el público de lengua española. En particular, existe un nicho no explotado de estudios escritos en español, sobre el español pero que examinen también lenguas minoritarias. Con este volumen colectivo se pretende: (i) acercar el estudio de la interfaz sintaxis-pragmática desde perspectivas tipológicas al público de habla española. (ii) dar énfasis a enfoques de corte funcionalista, basados en la descripción de discurso natural, e independientes de las categorías y formalizaciones de modelos gramaticales particulares; (iii) extender el estudio de la interfaz sintaxis-pragmática más allá de la articulación oracional en tópico/foco para incluir estudios ligados a la continuidad tópica, al modelo de la Estructura Argumental Preferida, y otros. (iii) reunir investigaciones originales sobre interfaz sintaxis-pragmática, consolidando los estudios que desde esta área se dedican al español pero también apoyando el desarrollo de aquellos ligados a lenguas minoritarias de América. Privileging functionalist approaches-based on descriptions of natural discourse and independent from formal grammatical models-, this collected volume gathers original contributions on the syntax-pragmatics interface in Spanish as well as in indigenous languages of the Americas, and explores related topics like topical continuity or Preferred Argument Structure.

Language --- Linguistics --- Semantics & pragmatics --- E-books --- Indigenous languages of the Americas. --- Information Structure. --- Pragmatics. --- Spanish.

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Diese Einführung in die Pragmatik wurde mit dem Ziel konzipiert, neben den klassischen Themen speziell in aktuelle Theorien einzuführen, die für die Beschreibung des Deutschen relevant sind. Mehrere Forschungszweige der Pragmatik haben in den letzten Jahren zu einem wesentlich besseren Verständnis sprachlicher Phänomene geführt, die im Deutschen weit verbreitet sind. Die moderne Analyse von Fokus und Informationsstruktur erschließt die Systematik der "freien" Wortstellung des Deutschen. Theorien über kontextbezogene und emotive Bedeutungsteile erlauben es, die deutschen Modalpartikeln in ihrer Pragmatik zu erfassen. Dialogmodelle wie das Table-Modell haben interessante Anwendungen für deutsche Polaritätsphänomene. Sprachwandelphänomene können mit Hilfe der historischen Pragmatik erklärt werden. Das Lehrbuch fasst diese Themen erstmals in einem Kurs zusammen. Die Themen werden in einem einheitlichen notationellen Rahmen behandelt; der formale Serviceteil liefert Lesehilfen zum Einstieg in die Forschungsliteratur. Übungen und weiterführende Fragen ergänzen die jeweiligen Kapitel. This book provides an introduction to the fundamental terms in the field of pragmatics. Alongside classic topics – implicature, presupposition, speech acts, deixis – the focus is on a detailed understanding of the pragmatic phenomena of the German language. The volume presents and analyses German modal particles and the ‘free’ word order of the German language against the backdrop of current pragmatic theories.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Information structure. --- historical pragmatics. --- modal particle. --- speech acts.

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This monograph is the first large-scale corpus analysis of French il y a clefts. While most research on clefts focusses on the English ‘prototypical’ it-cleft and its equivalents across languages, this study examines the lesser-known il y a clefts – of both presentational-eventive and specificational type – and provides an in-depth analysis of their syntactic,　semantic and discourse-functional properties.In addition to an extensive literature review and a comparison with Italian c’è clefts and with French c’est clefts, the strength of the study lies in the critical approach it develops to the common definition of clefts. Several commonly used criteria for clefts are applied to the corpus data, revealing that these criteria often lead to ambiguous results. The reasons for this ambiguity are explored, thus leading to a better understanding of what constitutes a cleft. In this sense, the analysis will be of interest to specialists of Romance and non-Romance clefts alike.

French language --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Clauses. --- E-books --- Clefts. --- Word Order. ---  Corpus Analysis. ---  French. ---  Information Structure.

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Since natural languages exist in two different modalities – the visual-gestural modality of sign languages and the auditory-oral modality of spoken languages – it is obvious that all fields of research in modern linguistics will benefit from research on sign languages. Although previous studies have provided important insights into a wide range of phenomena of sign languages, there are still many aspects of sign languages that have not yet been investigated thoroughly. The structure of subordinated clauses is a case in point. The study of these complex syntactic structures in the visual-gestural modality adds to our understanding of linguistic variation in the domain of subordination. Moreover, it offers new empirical and theoretical evidence concerning possible structures and functions of subordination in natural languages. And last but not least, it answers the question to what extent the corresponding morphosyntactic and prosodic strategies depend on the modality of articulation and perception. This volume represents the first collection of papers by leading experts in the field investigating topics that go beyond the analysis of simple clauses. It thus contributes in innovative ways to recent debates about syntax, prosody, semantics, discourse structure, and information structure and their complex interrelation.

Sign language. --- Sign language --- Langage par signes --- Syntax. --- Syntaxe --- Grammar. --- Deaf --- Gesture language --- Language and languages --- Gesture --- Signs and symbols --- Information Structure. --- Prosody. --- Semantics. --- Sign Language.

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This volume presents new and cutting-edge research on the question of how we parse, interpret and understand language in more complex discourse settings. The challenge is to find empirical evidence on how information structure and semantic processing are related. Comprehensible answers are provided by showing how syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics interact and how they influence semantic processing and interpretation. The analysis of core information structural concepts that contribute to processing such as focus and contrast, the specific discourse status of referents that add to the common ground, context dependency and markedness as well as prosodic prominence and givenness marking has added new and convincing evidence to the research of information structure and semantic processing.

Markedness (Linguistics) --- Marked member (Linguistics) --- Distinctive features (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistics --- E-books --- Information structure. --- language processing. --- pragmatics. --- semantics.