Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages.:

In this article, we discuss how contrastivity can be identified in historical texts where we have no direct access to prosodic features such as stress and intonation. We depart from our knowledge of contrastivity in the modern languages and their exponence in Modern Spanish and Portuguese, where bot...

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1. Verfasser: Bech, Kristin
Weitere Verfasser: Eide, Kristine Gunn
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
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Zusammenfassung:In this article, we discuss how contrastivity can be identified in historical texts where we have no direct access to prosodic features such as stress and intonation. We depart from our knowledge of contrastivity in the modern languages and their exponence in Modern Spanish and Portuguese, where both word order and prosody play a role in expressing contrast, and compare the analysis of the modern languages to our data of Old Spanish and Old Portuguese. Our findings indicate that very little has changed with regard to the expression of contrastivity through word order. Therefore, any word order.
Beschreibung:2. The distribution of full and reduced definite articles in Present-day German: Some theoretical concepts.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (429 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027270467
9027270465
9789027255969
9027255962

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