Information status and noncanonical word order in English /:

This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English - preposing, postposing, and argument reversal - and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variety...

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1. Verfasser: Birner, Betty J.
Weitere Verfasser: Ward, Gregory L.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in language companion series ; v. 40.
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Zusammenfassung:This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English - preposing, postposing, and argument reversal - and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variety of ways in which information can be 'given' or 'new' and shows how an understanding of this variety allows us to account for the distribution of these constructions in discourse. Moreover, the authors show that there exist broad and empirically verifiable functional correspondences within classes of.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 314 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index.
ISBN:9789027281906
9027281904
ISSN:0165-7763 ;