Author: Bernini, Giuliano ; & Schwartz, Marcia L. ; editors :
Title: Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe
Description: Berlin / New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 2006. orig. cloth. 24x15cm, xxiv,632 pages, Weighs 1.2 kilos. Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology / EUROTYP, Vol. 8.. ISBN: 9783110157536. Minor wear. VG. ¶ ["The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information"- publisher's description]. Contents: Spoken and written language (Jim Miller and M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest)-- Part II: From function to form: Sentence topics in the languages of Europe (Elena S. Maslova and Giuliano Bernini). -- Focus in the languages of Europe (Jim Miller)-- Deixis and Anaphora (Yaron Matras and Machtelt Bolkestein) -- Theticity (Hans-Jurgen Sasse)-- Part III: From form to function: The de-accenting of given information: a cognitive universal (Alan Cruttenden) -- Interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors on basic word order in the languages of Europe (Rosanna Sornicola).

Keywords: 9783110157536 Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Linguistics, Syntax, Comparative Grammar, Language, Linguistic Theory, ,