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Focus and background in Romance languages [electronic resource] / edited by Andreas Dufter, Daniel Jacob.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in language companion series ; v. 112.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2009.Description: 362 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9789027289520 (electronic bk.)
  • 9027289522 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 440 22
LOC classification:
  • PC11 .R65 2007eb
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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.
Summary: Papers presented at a workshop, Focus and background in Romance languages, that convened during the 30th Romanistentag, in Vienna, Austria, 23-27 September 2007.
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Papers presented at a workshop, Focus and background in Romance languages, that convened during the 30th Romanistentag, in Vienna, Austria, 23-27 September 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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