Topic-worthiness in German and English *.

From: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the languagesciences | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract

Translations from English into German show that about every second sentence does not begin like the original, although discourse conditions are similar and analogous beginnings are seldom excluded for linguistic reasons. In many cases, the differences concern word order (as well as perspective and structural explicitness), in particular the preposing/topicalizing of arguments or adjuncts. To explain these findings, the strategy of discourse linking by the order given before new (for simple, binary information structures) is complemented by a strategy of balanced ...

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