17.2559, Books: Linguistic Theories/Pragmatics/Syntax: Bernini, Schwartz (Eds)

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Date: 05-Sep-2006
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe:
Bernini, Schwartz (Eds) 

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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:48:47
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe: Bernini, Schwartz (Eds) 

Title: Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe 
Series Title: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology / EUROTYP 20-8  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
	   http://www.mouton-publishers.com

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110157535-1&l=E 

Editor: Giuliano Bernini, University of Bergamo
Editor: Marcia L. Schwartz, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany

Hardback: ISBN: 3110157535 Pages: 632 Price: Europe EURO 198.00 Comment: for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 267.30

Abstract:

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.

>From the Contents: 

Part I: General issues

Introduction 
Giuliano Bernini

Spoken and written language 
Jim Miller and M.M.Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest

Part II: From function to form

Sentence topics in the languages of Europe 
Elena S. Maslova and Giuliano Bernini

Focus in the languages of Europe
Jim Miller

Deixis and Anaphora
Yaron Matras and Machtelt Bolkestein

Theticity 
Hans-Jürgen Sasse

Part III: From form to function

The de-accenting of given information: a cognitive universal?
Alan Cruttenden

Interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors on basic word order in the 
languages of Europe
Rosanna Sornicola

Articles and article systems in some areas of Europe
Christoph Schroeder 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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