This volume aims at offering an up-to-date survey on non-canonical word orders and their interplay with information structure and discourse organization. The contributions analyze different non-canonical syntactic structures (fronting, inversion, dislocations, and cleft constructions), focusing on Italian alone or on Italian in a contrastive perspective with one or more Romance (French, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish) and/or Germanic (English and German) languages. The authors tackle the main issue of the volume from a variety of perspectives and by relying on different theoretical frameworks. At the same time, they all offer a fine-grained description of the structures analyzed on the basis of a solid empirical foundation.
| ISBN: | 9783631661277 |
| Publication date: | 4th July 2016 |
| Author: | Daniel Jacob |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 250 pages |
| Series: | Studia Romanica et Linguistica |
| Genres: |
Grammar, syntax and morphology Historical and comparative linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Literary studies: general |