Pragmatic organization of discourse in the languages of Europe

Author(s)

• Bernini, Giuliano
• Schwartz, Marcia L.
• Typology of Languages in Europe (Project)

Bibliographic Information

Pragmatic organization of discourse in the languages of Europe

edited by Giuliano Bernini, Marcia L. Schwartz

（Empirical approaches to language typology / editors, Georg Bossong, Bernard Comrie, 20 . EUROTYP ; 8）

Mouton de Gruyter, c2006

Note

"The present volume is one of a series of nine volumes in which the results of the European research project 'Typology of Languages in Europe' (EUROTYP) are published."--P. [v]

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.

Table of Contents

Part I: General issues 0. Introduction Giuliano Bernini 1. Spoken and written language Jim Miller and M.M.Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest Part II: From function to form 2. Sentence topics in the languages of Europe Elena S. Maslova and Giuliano Bernini 3. Focus in the languages of Europe Jim Miller 4. Deixis and Anaphora Yaron Matras and Machtelt Bolkestein 5. Theticity Hans-Jurgen Sasse Part III: From form to function 6. The de-accenting of given information: a cognitive universal? Alan Cruttenden 7. Interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors on basic word order in the languages of Europe(Rosanna Sornicola 8. Articles and article systems in some areas of Europe Christoph Schroeder Index of names Index of languages Index of subjects

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Details

• NCID: BA77739037
• ISBN:
  • 9783110157536
• LCCN: 2005031059
• Country Code: gw
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berlin
• Pages/Volumes: xxiv, 632 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P380
  • DC22 : 306.44094
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Europe -- Languages
  • LCSH : Pragmatics
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
  • LCSH : Discourse analysis
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00994359