[Ura-list] Book: Topik, Fokus und Informationsstatus: Modellierung am Material nordwestsibirischer Sprachen

[Josefina Budzisch]

Dear Uralists,

I would like to announce the recent publication /Topik, Fokus und 
Informationsstatus: Modellierung am Material nordwestsibirischer 
//Sprachen /by Chris Lasse Däbritz.

Abstract: Information structure is field of research, which has been 
intensively worked on during the last decades, especially from a 
theoretical point of view. Given the increasing availability of language 
data from less studied languages, some information structural phenomena 
of Siberian languages were touched upon, too. The volume at hand deals 
with the information structural concepts "topic", "focus" and 
"information status", as well as with their corresponding linguistic 
expressions in five languages of Northern Siberia (Khanty, Enets, 
Nganasan; Dolgan; Evenki), focusing on morphosyntax. Thereby, an 
existing model of describing information structure within a generative 
framework is empirically evaluated against spoken language data, and 
eventually enlarged and developed further. Moreover, central information 
structural phenomena of the target languages (topic position, focus 
position, postverbal backgrounding, objective conjugation and 
non-possessive possessive suffixes) are analyzed and described within 
the chosen framework. Therefore, the volume at hand contributes to both 
the theoretical understanding of information structure and the 
description of information structural phenomena in the given languages.

Website: https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/591704

Kind regards,
Josefina Budzisch

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