Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure
By: edited by Carsten Breul, Edward Göbbel
Series: Linguistik aktuell = -- Linguistics today -- v. 165; Linguistik aktuell -- Bd. 165.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9789027255488; 9789027287847
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar; Syntax; Contrastive linguistics; Focus (Linguistics); Topic and comment
Notes: "The present book contains a selection of articles based on papers presented at the conference on 'Contrastive Information Structure Analysis' organised by Carsten Breul at the University of Wuppertal in March 2008"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Carsten Breul, & Edward Göbbel & Alexander Thiel; title: Contrastive topics and distributed foci as instances of sub-informativity : a comparison of English and German / Volker Gast; title: Givenness and discourse anaphors / Luis López; title: Constraints on subject-focus mapping in French and English : a contrastive analysis / Knud Lambrecht; title: Wh-questions in French and English : mapping syntax to information structure / Paul Boucher; title: A comparative perspective on intensive reflexives : English and Hebrew / Dana Cohen; title: Focus types and argument asymmetries : a cross-linguistic study in language production / Stavros Skopeteas & Gisbert Fanselow; title: Topicality in L1-acquisition : a contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and German / Nicole Hauser-Grüdl; title: Formal and functional constraints on constituent order and their universality / Peter Öhl; title: On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure / Carsten Breul.