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Focus and background in Romance languages / edited by Andreas Dufter, Daniel Jacob.
| Author/creator | Romanistentag |
| Other author | Dufter, Andreas. |
| Other author | Jacob, Daniel, 1957- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., |
| Description | 362 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 112 Studies in language companion series ; v. 112. ^A654669 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | Papers presented at a workshop, Focus and background in Romance languages, that convened during the 30th Romanistentag, in Vienna, Austria, 23-27 September 2007. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009007669 |
| ISBN | 9789027205797 (hb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9027205795 (hb : alk. paper) |