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1 online resource |
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Studies in language companion series (SLCS) ; volume 201 |
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 201.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: core issues of focus realization in Romance / Melanie Uth and Marco García García -- 2. Language variation at the prosody-syntax interface: Focus in European Spanish / Maria del Mar Vanrell and Olga Fernández-Soriano -- 3. Focus realization at the prosody-syntax interface: Yucatecan Spanish opposed to Standard Mexican Spanish / Melanie Uth -- 4. Acceptability and frequency in Spanish focus marking / Steffen Heidinger -- 5. Prosodic nuclear patterns in narrow and broad focus utterances: Pragmatic and social factors in Central Mexican Spanish / Pedro Martín Butragueño and Érika Mendoza -- 6. Distinguishing contrast and focus at PF: A view from Italian / Jacopo Torregrossa -- 7. Presupposed modality / Uli Reich -- 8. NP exclamatives and focus / Marco García García -- 9. Adverbial cleft sentences in Italian, French and English: A comparative perspective / Anna-Maria De Cesare and Davide Garassino -- 10. Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: A case of pragmatic borrowing? / Carola Trips and Achim Stein -- 11. Developing strategies for encoding additive and contrastive relations in French and German child narratives / Christine Dimroth and Sandra Benazzo -- 12. Focus, prosody, and subject positions in L3 Spanish: Analyzing data from German learners with Italian and European Portuguese as heritage languages / Christoph Gabriel and Jonas Grünke -- Index |
| Summary |
What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of linguistic disciplines and perspectives such as language acquisition and language contact, this volume provides a state-of-the-art discussion on central issues of focus realization. These include the interaction between prosody, syntax, and pragmatics, the typology of word order and intonation languages, the differentiation between focus and related notions such as contrast and presupposed modality, and the role of synchronic variation and change. The studies presented in this volume cover a broad range of Romance languages, including French, Italian, Portuguese, and different varieties of Spanish. Moreover, the book also offers new insights into non-Romance languages such as English, German, and Quechua |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Romance languages -- Topic and comment
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Focus (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment.
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Perspective (Linguistics)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Perspective (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment
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Focus (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
García, Marco García, editor
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Uth, Melanie, editor
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| LC no. |
2018054615 |
| ISBN |
9789027263483 |
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9027263485 |
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