Topic and Focus Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and Intonation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lee, Chungmin (Editor), Gordon, Matthew (Editor), Büring, Daniel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ; 82
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Linguistics, general.

This book contains a collection of papers exploring the cross-linguistic expression of topic and focus. A diverse set of perspectives from some of the leading scholars in the areas of semantics and intonation are represented in the collection, which is based on papers presented at the Topic and Focu...