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Contrast - from a contrastive perspective

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Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

Publishing year

2002

Language

English

Pages

147-161

Publication/Series

Information Structure in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Issue

39

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Rodopi

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Conference name

Symposium on Information Structure in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Conference date

0001-01-02

Conference place

Oslo, Norway

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0921-5034