Eurotyp : : Typology of Languages in Europe. / 8, : Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe / / ed. by Giuliano Bernini, Marcia L. Schwartz.

The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 20-8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (632 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • General Preface
  • Contents
  • Contents detailed
  • Contributors
  • I. General issue
  • Introduction
  • Spoken and written language
  • II. From function to form
  • Sentence topics in the languages of Europe and beyond
  • Focus in the languages of Europe
  • Deixis and anaphora: Some case studies
  • Theticity
  • III. From form to function
  • The de-accenting of given information: A cognitive universal?
  • Interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors on basic word order in the languages of Europe
  • Articles and article systems in some areas of Europe
  • Subject index. Language index. Author index