30.4387, Books: Architecture of Topic: Molnár, Egerland, Winkler (eds.)

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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:55:12
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Architecture of Topic: Molnár, Egerland, Winkler (eds.)

 


Title: Architecture of Topic 
Series Title: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/36LxQQP 


Editor: Valéria Molnár
Editor: Werner Egerland
Editor: Susanne Winkler

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501512612 Pages: 430 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of
topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The purpose of the
volume is to discuss the universal properties of topics and, at the same time,
to document the range of discourse-semantic and grammatical variation within
this phenomenon in European languages. 

The volume is structured accordingly: (i) theoretical foundations of
topicality in grammar and discourse; (ii) discourse-semantic correlates of
topicality; (iii) variation in the grammatical (external and internal)
encoding of topicality; (iv) topics from the diachronic perspective. The
articles take different perspectives, including contrastive studies of modern
languages, studies on diachronic development, and typological generalizations.
They also take into consideration various types of empirical data –
introspective data, semi-spontaneously produced data, experimental data and
language corpora. 

The articles in this volume show that the concept of topic is necessary for
the description and explanation of a number of discourse-semantic phenomena.
They present a state of the art account of the architecture of topic while
making recent research on the phenomenon accessible to a wider readership.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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