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Information status and noncanonical word order in English / Betty J. Birner, Gregory Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Birner, Betty J.
- Series:
- Studies in language companion series ; v. 40.
- Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 40
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Word order.
- English language.
- English language--Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English - preposing, postposing, and argument reversal - and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variety of ways in which information can be 'given' or 'new' and shows how an understanding of this variety allows us to account for the distribution of these constructions in discourse. Moreover, the authors show that there exist broad and empirically verifiable functional correspondences within classes of
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Preposing; 3 Postposing; 4 Argument Reversal; 5 Noncanonical Word Order and Discourse Structure; 6 Extensions and Implications; Appendix; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-28033-7
- 9786613280336
- 90-272-8190-4
- OCLC:
- 748242119
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