Focus and background in Romance languages
By: edited by Andreas Dufter, Daniel Jacob.
Contributors: Dufter, Andreas.; Jacob, Daniel.
Series: Studies in language companion series
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027205797
Subjects: Romance languages -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: Papers presented at a workshop, Focus and background in Romance languages,  that convened during the 30th Romanistentag, in Vienna, Austria, 23-27 September 2007.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Andreas Duffer and Daniel Jacob; title: Topicalization and focalization in French SI-clauses / Jeanne Aptekman; title: Discourse functions of fronted foci in Italian and Spanish / Lisa Brunetti; title: Clefting and discourse organization: Comparing Germanic and Romance / Andreas Dufter; title: Cleft sentences from Old Portuguese to Modern Portuguese / Mary A. Kato and Ilza Ribeiro; title: Fronting and verum focus in Spanish / Manuel Leonetti and Victoria Escandell-Vidal; title: Additive focus particles in bilingual language acquisition / Estelle Leray; title: Major constituent order, information packaging, and narrative structure in two Middle French texts / Claude Muller; title: Grammatical and contextual restrictions on focal alternatives / Edgar Onea and Klaus von Heusinger; title: Verb placement in Old Portuguese / Esther Rinke; title: Topic, focus, and background in Italian clauses / Vieri Samek-Lodovici.