Contrast - from a contrastive perspective
(2002) Symposium on Information Structure in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective p.147-161- Abstract
- The main concern of the paper is to address some problems that arise when defining the concept of contrast and to clarify the relation between contrast and other concepts of information structure. As to the definition of the notion of contrast, we need to separate the semantic and pragmatic aspects of contrastiveness as well as identify different types within these two main categories. There is abundant cross-linguistic evidence for the hypothesis that certain types of contrast motivate a more fine-grained analysis of topicality and focusing. It will be argued, however, that contrastiveness not only is a relevant feature for the parametrization of topicality and focusing, but that contrast indeed represents an autonomous concept of... (More)
- The main concern of the paper is to address some problems that arise when defining the concept of contrast and to clarify the relation between contrast and other concepts of information structure. As to the definition of the notion of contrast, we need to separate the semantic and pragmatic aspects of contrastiveness as well as identify different types within these two main categories. There is abundant cross-linguistic evidence for the hypothesis that certain types of contrast motivate a more fine-grained analysis of topicality and focusing. It will be argued, however, that contrastiveness not only is a relevant feature for the parametrization of topicality and focusing, but that contrast indeed represents an autonomous concept of information structuring. (Less)
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- author
- Molnár, Valéria LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2002
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Information Structure in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
- issue
- 39
- pages
- 147 - 161
- publisher
- Rodopi
- conference name
- Symposium on Information Structure in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
- conference location
- Oslo, Norway
- conference dates
- 0001-01-02
- external identifiers
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- wos:000182972200009
- ISSN
- 0921-5034
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 9317d41a-7a1f-4447-a5d4-f1cb4c346b70 (old id 1406960)
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abstract = {{The main concern of the paper is to address some problems that arise when defining the concept of contrast and to clarify the relation between contrast and other concepts of information structure. As to the definition of the notion of contrast, we need to separate the semantic and pragmatic aspects of contrastiveness as well as identify different types within these two main categories. There is abundant cross-linguistic evidence for the hypothesis that certain types of contrast motivate a more fine-grained analysis of topicality and focusing. It will be argued, however, that contrastiveness not only is a relevant feature for the parametrization of topicality and focusing, but that contrast indeed represents an autonomous concept of information structuring.}},
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booktitle = {{Information Structure in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective}},
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number = {{39}},
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publisher = {{Rodopi}},
title = {{Contrast - from a contrastive perspective}},
year = {{2002}},
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