Architecture of Topic /

Architecture of Topic / / ed. by Verner Egerland, Valéria Molnár, Susanne Winkler.

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 wi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Culicover, Peter W.,
Egerland, Verner,
Erteschik-Shir, Nomi,
Frascarelli, Mara,
Frey, Werner,
Hinterhölzl, Roland,
Konietzko, Andreas,
Kuthy, Kordula De,
Meinunger, André,
Molnár, Valéria,
Rochemont, Michael,
Sigurðsson, Halldór Ármann,
Speyer, Augustin,
Vinckel-Roisin, Hélène,
Winkler, Susanne,
HerausgeberIn:
Egerland, Verner,
Molnár, Valéria,
Winkler, Susanne,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 136
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 430 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Exploring the Architecture of Topic at the Interface of Grammar and Discourse
  • Part I: Semantic and Discourse-pragmatic Correlates of Topicality
  • Topics and Givenness
  • The Role of Topics in Licensing Anaphoric Relations in VP-ellipsis
  • Topic Marking and Illocutionary Force
  • Topics, Conversational Dynamics and the Root/Non-root Distinction: Adverbial Clauses at the Discourse-syntax Interface
  • Part II: Variation in the Grammatical Encoding of Topicality: Clause-internal, Clause-external and Null Topics
  • Why Topicalize VP?
  • Information-structural Constraints on PP Topicalization from NPs
  • Stage Topics and their Architecture
  • Topicality in Icelandic: Null Arguments and Narrative Inversion
  • Apropos the Topic
  • Discourse Topic vs. Sentence Topic Exploiting the Right Periphery of German Verb-second Sentences
  • PART III: Topics from the Diachronic Perspective
  • Topichood and the Margins of the German Clause from a Historical Perspective
  • Stylistic Fronting at the Interface of Syntax and Discourse
  • Index

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