Title: Information structuring of spoken language from a cross-linguistic perspective /
Authors: Fernandez, M. M. Jocelyne,; Van Valin, Robert D.,
Date: 2016
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton,
Physical description: vi, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. -- Theoretical approaches to IS -- Detachment linguistics and information grammar of Oral languages / M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest -- Reference and cognitive status : scalar inferences and typology / Jeanette K. Gundel and Nancy Hedberg -- Saliency in discourse and sentence form : zero anaphora and topicalization in Japanese / Mitsuaki Shimojo -- An overview of information structure in three Amazonian languages / Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. -- IS and spoken language -- Micro-variation in information structure : existential constructions in Italo-Romance / Delia Benttey, Francesco Maria Ciconte, Silvio Cruschina, Michael Ramsammy -- How does adjacency arise? Grammatical conditions on focus-verb adjacency in Basque / Ricardo Etxepare -- Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations / Ritva Laury and Marja-Liisa Helasvuo -- Tag questions and focus markers : evidence from even / Dejan Matić -- Syntactic and prosodic marking of contrastiveness in oral mandarin / Victor Pan -- Demonstratives and IS in spoken estonian / Heete Sahkai -- IS and discourse particles -- Word order and focus particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages -- / Oleg Belyaev and Diana Forker -- The discourse particle to and word ordering in Hindi : from grammar to discourse / Annie Montaut -- IS and language contacts -- Information structuring trategies in Pidgin Madam / Fida Bizri -- New information structuring processes and morphosyntactic change / Peter Slomanson --
Notes: International conference proceedings.
Subject headings (LCSH): Conversation analysis--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.; Conversation analysis--Cross-cultural studies.; Focus (Linguistics)--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.; Focus (Linguistics)--Cross-cultural studies.; Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.; Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment--Cross-cultural studies.; Phrase structure grammar--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.; Phrase structure grammar--Cross-cultural studies.; Psycholinguistics--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.; Psycholinguistics--Cross-cultural studies.; Speech acts (Linguistics)--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.; Speech acts (Linguistics)--Cross-cultural studies.