This volume presents original comparative and contrastive research into various aspects of information structure (topic, focus, contrastivity, givenness, anaphoricity) as well as into forms and structures whose realisation depends on information-structural factors (clefts, dislo…
A cross-linguistic study of how objects are affected by information structure.
Objects and information structure
by Nikolaeva, Irina, Dalrymple, Mary
fromCambridge studies in linguistics
In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how differential object marking is affected by information st…
Objects and information structure
by Nikolaeva, Irina, Dalrymple, Mary
fromCambridge studies in linguistics
In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how differential object marking is affected by information st…
Objects and Information Structure
by Nikolaeva, Irina, Dalrymple, Mary
fromCambridge studies in linguistics
In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how differential object marking is affected by information st…
"In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how differential object marking is affected by information s…
Objects and information structure
by Nikolaeva, Irina, Dalrymple, Mary
fromCambridge studies in linguistics
"In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how differential object marking is affected by information s…
A cross-linguistic study of how objects are affected by information structure.
El presente libro analiza las condiciones que impone el intercambio lingüístico en su nivel básico, el perceptivo, análisis que es matizado en un segundo nivel interpretativo de las intenciones comunicativas.
