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.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Sentences. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Functionalism (Linguistics) Discourse analysis. Pragmatics. Discourse analysis. Functionalism (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Sentences. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Pragmatics. Electronic books.
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. Print version record.
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

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Acknowledgements
3. Part I. Grammatical constructions
4. The\information structure of ditransitives
5. Non-promotional passives and unspecified subject constructions
6. On the relationship between sentence focus category, subject-verb order, and genericity
7. Frames and the interpretation of omitted arguments in English
8. Interactional frames and grammatical constructions
9. Topics at the left periphery in Russian
10. Part II. Topics in French Grammar
11. Final compression in French as a phrasal phenomenon
12. Pourquoi in Spoken French
13. Processing constraints and information structure as moderating factors on first- and second-language use of the causal conjunction parce que
14. Contrasting c'est -clefts and it-clefts in discourse
15. Left dislocation in French
16. Index

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