Focus and background in Romance languages
Papers presented at a workshop "Focus and background in Romance languages" that convened during the 30th Romanistentag, the Biannual Meeting of the association of romanicists inthe German speaking countries, in Vienna, Austria, 23-27 September 2007.
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins
2009
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
112 |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991006902289708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Andreas Dufter and Daniel Jacob
- Topicalization and focalization in French SI-clauses / Jeanne Aptekman
- Discourse functions of fronted foci in Italian and Spanish / Lisa Brunetti
- Clefting and discourse organization: comparing Germanic and Romance / Andreas Dufter
- Cleft sentences from Old Portuguese to modern Portuguese / Mary A. Kato and Ilza Ribeiro
- Fronting and verum focus in Spanish / Manuel Leonetti and Victoria Escandell-Vidal
- Additive focus particles in bilingual language acquisition / Estelle Leray
- Major constituent order, information packaging, and narrative structure in two Middle French texts / Claude Muller
- Grammatical and contextual restrictions on focal alternatives / Edgar Onea and Klaus von Heusinger
- Verb placement in Old Portuguese / Esther Rinke
- Topic, focus, and background in Italian clauses / Vieri Samek-Lodovici.
