Sökning: "topic-comment"

Hittade 2 avhandlingar innehållade ordet topic-comment.

  1. 1. Es-Clefts und det-Clefts : Zur Syntax, Semantik und Informationsstruktur von Spaltsätzen im Deutschen und Schwedischen

    Författare :Stefan Huber; Tyska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; generative grammar; German sentence structure; Swedish sentence structure; split CP; relative clauses; expletives; extraposition; connectivity; predication; specification; identification.; topic-comment; projection of focus; background-focus; It-cleft constructions; copular constructions; pseudo-cleft constructions; German language and literatur; Tyska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the syntax, semantics and information structure of it-cleft constructions in German and Swedish. The syntactic analysis is presented within a standard framework of generative theory. In defining genuine cleft constructions, both the syntactic and the semantic structures of clefts are taken into consideration. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Verb-erst-Deklarativsätze. Grammatik und Pragmatik

    Författare :Olaf Önnerfors; Tyska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; German language and literatur; Germanic languages; performative use; German; declarative clause; clause-initial position of the finite verb; syntax; topic-comment structure; information structure; theticity; narrativity; enumeration; deontic modality; exclamation; causality; Tyska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to describe and explain independent declarative clauses in German which have the finite verb in absolute clause-initial position. They are called verb-first declarative clauses. It is shown that this type of clause can be found in a variety of Germanic languages. LÄS MER