Information-structural perspectives on discourse particles / edited by Pierre-Yves Modicom, University of Bordeaux Montaigne ; Olivier Duplâtre, Sorbonne University.
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2020]
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 213. |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Summary: | "The articles collected in this volume offer new perspectives into the relevance of notions such as topic, antitopic, contrastive topic, focus, verum focus and theticity for the analysis of the syntax and semantics of modal particles, sentence-final particles and other medial, sentential and illocutive particles. This book addresses three great questions in a variety of languages ranging from Japanese to Mohawk, including Basque, French, German, Italian, Kazakh, Spanish and Turkish, with some insights from English and Russian. The first question is the role played by information-structural strategies such as left dislocations, clefts or the morphological marking of focus in the rise of discourse particles. In the second part, papers are concerned with the relevance of information structure for the study of polysemic and polyfunctional discourse particles. Finally, the contribution of particles to the determination of the information-structural profile of the clause is examined, as well as their role in the information-structural specification of illocutionary types. Language-specific papers alternate with comparative approaches in order to show how newer insights on information structure can help resolve some of the classical issues of the linguistic research on particles"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 304 pages) |
| Other format: | Print version: Information-structural perspectives on discourse particles. 9789027205056 |
| Notes: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 12, 2020). Bib#: 2943672 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Series: | Studies in language companion series (SLCS),
volume 213 |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9789027261465 9027261466 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |
| DOI: | 10.1075/slcs.213 |
| Bib#: | 2943672 |
