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Author:   Giuliano Bernini ,  Marcia L. Schwartz
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter Mouton
Edition:   Reprint 2011
Volume:   20-8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   1.110kg
ISBN:  

9783110157536

ISBN 10:   3110157535
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   18 July 2006
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: General issues 0. Introduction Giuliano Bernini 1. Spoken and written language Jim Miller and M.M.Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest Part II: From function to form 2. Sentence topics in the languages of Europe Elena S. Maslova and Giuliano Bernini 3. Focus in the languages of Europe Jim Miller 4. Deixis and Anaphora Yaron Matras and Machtelt Bolkestein 5. Theticity Hans-Jürgen Sasse Part III: From form to function 6. The de-accenting of given information: a cognitive universal? Alan Cruttenden 7. Interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors on basic word order in the languages of Europe(Rosanna Sornicola 8. Articles and article systems in some areas of Europe Christoph Schroeder Index of names Index of languages Index of subjects

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"""The rich empirical data collected in this volume will undoubtelly make it attractive to researchers interested in cross-linguistic variation, information structure, and corpus study.""H. Wind Cowles in: Folia Linguistica 41/2007"

The rich empirical data collected in this volume will undoubtelly make it attractive to researchers interested in cross-linguistic variation, information structure, and corpus study. H. Wind Cowles in: Folia Linguistica 41/2007

Author Information

Giuliano Bernini is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bergamo, Italy. Marcia L. Schwartz is affiliated with the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany.

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