Focus and background in Romance languages

Focus and background in Romance languages [Texte imprimé] / edited by Andreas Dufter, Daniel Jacob - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., cop. 2009 - 1 vol. (362 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm - Studies in language companion series, v. 112 0165-7763 ; . - doublonStudies in language companion series v. 112 .

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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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