Degrees of explicitness :: information structure and the packaging of Bulgarian subjects and objects /

This book explores factors relevant in the choices speakers and writers make in regard to explicitness of reference to the subjects and objects in their utterances. Bulgarian is a particularly felicitous target language for this type of study, since it possesses a rich inventory of available packagi...

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1. Verfasser: Leafgren, John
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2002.
Schriftenreihe:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 102.
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Zusammenfassung:This book explores factors relevant in the choices speakers and writers make in regard to explicitness of reference to the subjects and objects in their utterances. Bulgarian is a particularly felicitous target language for this type of study, since it possesses a rich inventory of available packaging techniques, ranging from zero reference, to various stressed and unstressed single forms, to actual doubled ("reduplicated") constructions. The study systematically addresses the need to avoid referential and grammatical ambiguity, and the crucial influence of emphasis. Another, and perhaps most.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index.
ISBN:9789027297464
9027297460
9781588112200
1588112209
ISSN:0922-842X ;