Information Structure
Subtitle: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects (Language, Context, and Cognition)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: October 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9783110179347
Subjects: Library & Information Science; Language Arts & Disciplines; Grammar, Comparative and general; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Topic and comment; Language; Semantics; Grammar; Grammar, Comparative and gener; Contrastive linguistics; Intonation (Phonetics)
First sentence: The aim of the present contribution is to present several hypotheses that may help to characterize and identify contrast as such and degrees of its intensity, and to point out how the phenomena connected with contrast can be handled in a descriptive framework that uses a dependency based syntax and includes a description of the topic-focus articulation (TFA) as one of the aspects of the underlying sentence structure.