Information structure and its interfaces
By: edited by Lunella Mereu.
Contributors: Mereu, Lunella.
Series: Interface explorations -- 19
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9783110208771
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax; Italian language -- Topic and comment; Italian language -- Dialects -- Topic and comment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Interfaces of information structure: Topic accent and prosodic structure / Claudia Crocco; title: The prosodic annotation of c-oral-rom and the structure of information in spoken language / Antonietta Scarano; title: Universals of information structure / Lunella Mereu; title: Grammar and information structure in italian and some of its dialects: Constructions with preposed infinitive: typological and pragmatic notes / Giuliano Bernini; title: Negation and "focus clash" in Sardinian / Franck Floricic; title: Do-support in a Sicilian variety, an Italian pseudo-cleft, and the packaging of information / Ignazio Mauro Mirto; title: Clitics and anaphoric relations in informational patterning: a corpus driven research on spontaneous spoken Italian (c-oral-rom) / Emanuela Cresti; title: The informational structure and the scope of lexical modality In spoken Italian (c-oral-rom) / Ida Tucci; title: Diachronic aspects in Italian: Functions of verb-subject order in Old Italian / Ludwig Fesenmeier; title: Between thematicity and grammaticalisation: the diachronic rearrangement of information structure and the position of clitic pronouns in Italian / Shingo Suzuki; title: Pragmatically oriented languages: Information structure in Slavic languages / Lucyna Gebert; title: Position, function and interpretation of topics in Somali / Mara Frascarelli and Annarita Puglielli; title: Some more aspects of information structure: Acquiring the grammar of topicality in l2 Italian: a comparative approach / Marina Chini; title: Where does the difference lie? / Edoardo Lombardi vallauri.