Information structuring in discourse / / edited by Anke Holler, Katja Suckow, Israel de la Fuente.

• Superior document: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; 40
• TeilnehmendeR: Suckow, Katja,; Holler, Anke,; Fuente, Israel de la,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : BRILL,, [2020]
• Any de publicació: 2020
• Idioma: English
• Col·lecció: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; 40.
• Descripció física: 1 online resource.

A text usually provides more information than a random sequence of clauses: It combines sentence-level information to larger units which are glued together by coherence relations that may induce a hierarchical discourse structure. Since linguists have begun to investigate texts as more complex units...

Table of Contents

• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Structuring Information in Discourse: Topics and Methods
• Israel de la Fuente, Anke Holler and Katja Suckow
• 2 Coherence and the Interpretation of Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns in German
• Yvonne Portele and Markus Bader
• 3 Cleft Focus and Antecedent Accessibility: The Emergence of the Anti-focus Effect
• Clare Patterson and Claudia Felser
• 4 Topics and Subjects in German Newspaper Editorials: A Corpus Study
• Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede
• 5 Inferable and Partitive Indefinites in Topic Position
• Klaus von Heusinger and Umut Özge
• 6 Projection to the Speaker: Non-restrictive Relatives Meet Coherence Relations
• Katja Jasinskaja and Claudia Poschmann
• 7 Central Adverbial Clauses and the Derivation of Subject-Initial V2
• Liliane Haegeman
• 8 Discourse Conditions on Relative Clauses: A Crosslinguistic and Diachronic Study on the Interaction between Mood, Verb Position and Information Structure
• Marco Coniglio and Roland Hinterhölzl
• 9 What's in an Act? Towards a Functional Discourse Grammar of Platonic Dialogue and a Linguistic Commentary on Plato's Protagoras
• Cassandra Freiberg.