Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context : studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht /

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Imprint:Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
©2014
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Pragmatics & Beyond new series, 0922-842x ; volume 244
Pragmatics & beyond ; v. 244.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11223217
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Other authors / contributors:Bourns, Stacey Katz, 1963- editor.
Myers, Lindsy L. (Linguist), editor.
Lambrecht, Knud, (honouree)
ISBN:9789027270597
9027270597
9789027256492
9027256497
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:A number of studies of Left Dislocation (LD) in spoken French within the Interactional Linguistics (IL) framework (de Fornel 1988; Pekarek Doehler 2001; Chevalier 2011b) have been critical of the information-structure analyses of this construction as set forth in Lambrecht (1981, 1994) and Barnes (1985). This discussion attempts to clarify the original information-structure analysis, arguing that the pragmatic definition of LD should be limited to the explicit marking of the sentence-topic and its associated comment. This topic-comment configuration is compatible with a large variety of partic.
Other form:Print version: Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context 9789027256492