02776nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10417557 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100618s2010 ne a sb 001 0 eng d 2010022887 9789027255488 (alk. paper) 9789027287847 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)673624996 P291 .C573 2010eb 415 22 Comparative and contrastive studies of information structure [electronic resource] / edited by Carsten Breul, Edward G�obbel. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010. xii, 306 p. : ill. Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 165 "The present book contains a selection of articles based on papers presented at the conference on 'Contrastive Information Structure Analysis' organised by Carsten Breul at the University of Wuppertal in March 2008"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Carsten Breul, Edward G�obbel & Alexander Thiel -- Contrastive topics and distributed foci as instances of sub-informativity : a comparison of English and German / Volker Gast -- Givenness and discourse anaphors / Luis L�opez -- Constraints on subject-focus mapping in French and English : a contrastive analysis / Knud Lambrecht -- Wh-questions in French and English : mapping syntax to information structure / Paul Boucher -- A comparative perspective on intensive reflexives : English and Hebrew / Dana Cohen -- Focus types and argument asymmetries : a cross-linguistic study in language production / Stavros Skopeteas and Gisbert Fanselow -- Topicality in L1-acquisition : a contrastive analysis of null subject expressions in child French and German / Nicole Hauser-Gr�udl -- Formal and functional constraints on constituent order and their universality / Peter �Ohl -- On the foundations of the contrastive study of information structure / Carsten Breul. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax. Contrastive linguistics. Focus (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general Topic and comment. Electronic books. local Breul, Carsten. G�obbel, Edward. ebrary, Inc. Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 165. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10417557 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 84619 84619