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Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond

Author : Marco García García
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263485
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond by : Marco García García

Download or read book Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond written by Marco García García and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of linguistic disciplines and perspectives such as language acquisition and language contact, this volume provides a state-of-the-art discussion on central issues of focus realization. These include the interaction between prosody, syntax, and pragmatics, the typology of word order and intonation languages, the differentiation between focus and related notions such as contrast and presupposed modality, and the role of synchronic variation and change. The studies presented in this volume cover a broad range of Romance languages, including French, Italian, Portuguese, and different varieties of Spanish. Moreover, the book also offers new insights into non-Romance languages such as English, German, and Quechua.

When Data Challenges Theory

Author : Davide Garassino
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027258155
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis When Data Challenges Theory by : Davide Garassino

Download or read book When Data Challenges Theory written by Davide Garassino and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure. The relevance of ‘unexpected’ data taken into account in the last decades, such as the well-known case of non-focalizing cleft sentences in Germanic and Romance, has increasingly led us to give more weight to explanations involving inferential reasoning, discourse organization and speakers’ rhetorical strategies, thus moving away from ‘sentence-based’ perspectives. At the same time, this shift towards pragmatic complexity has introduced new challenges to well-established information-structural categories, such as Focus and Topic, to the point that some scholars nowadays even doubt about their descriptive and theoretical usefulness. This book brings together researchers working in different frameworks and delving into cross-linguistic as well as language-internal variation and language contact. Despite their differences, all contributions are committed to the same underlying goal: appreciating the relation between linguistic structures and their context based on a firm empirical grounding and on theoretical models that are able to account for the challenges and richness of language use.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018

Author : Sergio Baauw
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027258295
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018 by : Sergio Baauw

Download or read book Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018 written by Sergio Baauw and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a peer reviewed selection of invited contributions, papers and posters that were presented at the 2018 venue of Going Romance (XXXII) in Utrecht (a four day program that included two thematic workshops). The papers all discuss data and formalized analyses of one or more Romance languages or dialects, in either synchronic or diachronic perspective, and pay particular attention to the variation and the actual variability that is at stake, not only in syntax and morpho-syntax but also in semantics and phonology. Beyond the discussion of differences between languages and/or dialects from a formalist perspective, the volume also contains a number of papers linking the theme of variation to sociolinguistic issues such as natural bilingualism and micro-contact.

New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond

Author : Johannes Kabatek
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027271259
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond by : Johannes Kabatek

Download or read book New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond written by Johannes Kabatek and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten contributions provide new perspectives on long-standing but still actively debated problems as well as investigations into previously ignored issues. The volume focuses on the wide range of bare noun phenomena in Romance languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Italian and French; but also widens its inherently comparative perspective to languages such as Bulgarian and Modern Hebrew. The authors discuss the importance of cross-linguistic patterns in the modeling of the syntax and semantics of noun phrases and of common noun denotations, the role of information structure as well as that of discourse traditions and coordination.

The intonation of expectations

Author : Jan Fliessbach
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961104131
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis The intonation of expectations by : Jan Fliessbach

Download or read book The intonation of expectations written by Jan Fliessbach and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new perspective on prosodically marked declaratives, wh-exclamatives, and discourse particles in the Madrid variety of Spanish. It argues that some marked forms differ from unmarked forms in that they encode modal evaluations of the at-issue meaning. Two epistemic evaluations that can be shown to be encoded by intonation in Spanish are obviousness and mirativity, which present the at-issue meaning as expected and unexpected, respectively. An empirical investigation via a production experiment finds that they are associated with distinct intonational features under constant focus scope, with stances of (dis)agreement showing an impact on obvious declaratives. Wh-exclamatives are found not to differ significantly in intonational marking from neutral declaratives, showing that they need not be miratives. Moreover, we find that intonational marking on different discourse particles in natural dialogue correlates with their meaning contribution without being fully determined by it. In part, these findings quantitatively confirm previous qualitative findings on the meaning of intonational configurations in Madrid Spanish. But they also add new insights on the role intonation plays in the negotiation of commitments and expectations between interlocutors.

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics

Author : Dale A. Koike
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429849346
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics by : Dale A. Koike

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics written by Dale A. Koike and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics is the first volume to offer a comprehensive overview of advances in Spanish Pragmatics, addressing different types of interaction and the variables, both social and linguistic, that can affect them. Written by a diverse set of experts in the field, the handbook unifies two major approaches to the study of pragmatics, the Anglo-American and European Continental traditions. Thirty-three chapters cover in detail both pragmatic foundations (e.g. speech act theory, implicature and relevance, deixis) and interfaces with other concepts, including: • Discourse • Variation; Culture and interculture • (Im)politeness; humor • Learning contexts and teaching • Technology This is an ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers of Spanish language and linguistics.

Exploring Interfaces

Author : Mónica Cabrera
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108488277
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring Interfaces by : Mónica Cabrera

Download or read book Exploring Interfaces written by Mónica Cabrera and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative exploration of the interface between grammar, meaning and form.

Spanish as a second and third language

Author : Jonas Grünke
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3732909697
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (329 download)

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Book Synopsis Spanish as a second and third language by : Jonas Grünke

Download or read book Spanish as a second and third language written by Jonas Grünke and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoken as a foreign language by around 24 million people worldwide, Spanish can be the second language (L2) of monolingually raised learners who acquire it in school. Ever more often it is also the third or a further language (L3) of learners who have previously studied another foreign language (for example Spanish after English in Germany) or who acquired more than one language during early childhood, as is the case with heritage speakers. This book explores the intersections between linguistics and language pedagogy related to the acquisition of L2 and L3 Spanish in various contexts worldwide. Fostering the interdisciplinary dialogue, it combines contributions by linguists and specialists in didactics, which not only examine the interface between basic linguistic and applied research but also develop proposals and materials for concrete teaching situations.

Intonation between phrasing and accent

Author : Timo Buchholz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111306240
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Book Synopsis Intonation between phrasing and accent by : Timo Buchholz

Download or read book Intonation between phrasing and accent written by Timo Buchholz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Role of Contrast in Information Structure

Author : Jorina Brysbaert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110986590
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis On the Role of Contrast in Information Structure by : Jorina Brysbaert

Download or read book On the Role of Contrast in Information Structure written by Jorina Brysbaert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In research on Information Structure, there is an ongoing discussion about the role of contrast. While most linguists consider contrast to be compatible with both focus and topic, some argue that it is an autonomous IS category. Contrast has been shown to be encoded by different linguistic means, such as specific morphemes, adverbials, clefts, prosodic cues. Hence, this concept is also related to other domains, in particular morphosyntax and prosody. The precise way in which they interact is however not yet entirely clear. Moreover, from a methodological point of view, the identification and annotation of contrast in corpora is not straightforward. This volume provides a selection of articles discussing the definition of contrast, the importance of distinguishing different types of contrast, the use of several encoding strategies, and the annotation of contrast in corpora using the Question Under Discussion Model. The contributions offer data on English, French, French Belgian Sign Language, German, Hindi, Italian and Spanish.

It-Clefts

Author : Caterina Bonan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110734249
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis It-Clefts by : Caterina Bonan

Download or read book It-Clefts written by Caterina Bonan and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clefts are intricate objects which, starting with Jespersen (1937), have motivated much work in descriptive and formal linguistics. Nonetheless, almost a century later their exact internal structure and status are still widely debated, therefore a multidisciplinary volume on this theoretically complex structure across different languages of the world is greatly needed. The articles featured in this volume follow an in-depth Introduction written by the editors, in which we offer a survey of the state-of-the-art on clefts by way of a strong contextualisation to the volume, including a number of robust empirical observations on the morphosyntactic and interpretational properties of these structures in numerous standard and non-standard Romance varieties, as well as a critical presentation of the contributions included in the volume. Among other things, the ten selected articles propose new insights into the widely-reported interpretational asymmetry between subject and object clefts, the features involved in their derivation, the ways in which the low and high peripheries are variously exploited in the derivation, the morphosyntactic and interpretational differences between clefts and their non-cleft counterparts, the role and formal properties of the copula, the notion of sub-extraction of features, a reconsideration of the very notion of focus via clefting, and much more. The volume, written by renown experts, offers an in-depth overview of the structure of it-clefts, taking into account different and complementary fields of the study of linguistics (cartography, quantitative methods, experimental investigations, nanosyntax, typology and dialectology) and robust empirical data from numerous languages including Romance varieties, Hungarian, Mandarin Chinese, and two Spanish- and French-lexifier creoles. Our belief is that the synchrony of clefts will only be appropriately understood once diachronic, typological, historical, experimental and dialectological aspects are all brought together. We offer through this volume a first attempt at providing such a variegated picture of the cross-linguistic morphosyntax of it-clefts.

Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles

Author : Pierre-Yves Modicom
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261466
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles by : Pierre-Yves Modicom

Download or read book Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles written by Pierre-Yves Modicom and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics

Author : Kimberly L. Geeslin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316800717
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics by : Kimberly L. Geeslin

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics written by Kimberly L. Geeslin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for both researchers and advanced students, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field of Spanish linguistics. Balancing different theoretical perspectives among expert scholars, it provides an in-depth examination of all sub-fields of research in Hispanic linguistics, with a focus on recent advances.

New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar

Author : Isabel Pérez-Jiménez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268134
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar by : Isabel Pérez-Jiménez

Download or read book New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar written by Isabel Pérez-Jiménez and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book entirely and exclusively devoted to the grammar of the two copular verbs ser and estar, certainly one of the most intriguing features of Spanish grammar. Although the topic has long attracted the interest of scholars, it had never given rise to a collection of papers that covers both theoretical issues in syntax and semantics and topics in the acquisition domain. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the central research questions concerning the ser / estar alternation: the syntactic or semantic nature of the distinction, its link with aspect and with the Individual-Level / Stage-Level distinction, and its connection with interface phenomena. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Hispanic linguistics, but can be equally attractive for researchers working on Romance linguistics, theoretical linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics), acquisition theory, and historical linguistics.

The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages

Author : Rajiv Rao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108833101
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages written by Rajiv Rao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length treatment of the phonetics and phonology of heritage languages, spanning a range of linguistic areas and communities.

The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody

Author : Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198832230
Total Pages : 957 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody by : Carlos Gussenhoven

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody written by Carlos Gussenhoven and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.

Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond

Author : Mirko Grimaldi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263175
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond by : Mirko Grimaldi

Download or read book Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond written by Mirko Grimaldi and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect, few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages, which together with Albanian were the main research domain of Leonardo M. Savoia. The volume covers areas as different as phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon. A broad range of Romance languages is considered, as well as Albanian, Greek and Hungarian, shedding new light on many classical topics. The first section focuses on morphosyntax, both in the narrow sense and with regard to its interfaces. The second section focuses on clitics and pronouns. The third section deals with a number of issues in phonology and syntax-phonology interface. The last section turns the reader’s attention beyond formal linguistics itself and examines variation in the light of neurosciences, pathology, historical linguistics and political discourse.