Structures of Focus and Grammatical Relations /

Structures of Focus and Grammatical Relations / / ed. by Jorunn Hetland, Valéria Molnár.

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The seven articles of this volume take up crucial aspects of information structure and grammatical form. Special attention is paid to the definition of topic, focus and contrast, to the language specific devices for expressing different types of these information structural notions, and to the typol...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Barðdal, Johanna,
Barödal, Johanna,
Heltoft, Lars,
Hetland, Jorunn,
Järventausta, Marja,
Landén, Barbro,
Molnár, Valéria,
HerausgeberIn:
Hetland, Jorunn,
Molnár, Valéria,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2003
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten , 477
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb. u. Tab.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contrast, the fall-rise accent, and Information Focus
  • Iconic and categorical focus systems in Scandinavian
  • Are Finnish null subjects null topics?
  • Discourse configurationality in Finnish and Hungarian
  • The relation between morphological case, syntactic functions and thematic roles in Icelandic: A frequency analysis
  • Passive as activity aspect. On the relation between aspectuality and passive: A comparative study of German and Swedish
  • The passive in Icelandic – compared to Mainland Scandinavian
  • Authors’ addresses

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