Human manual action exhibits a differential use of a non-dominant (typically, left) and a dominant (typically, right) hand. Human communication exhibits a pervasive structuring of utterances into topic and comment. I will ...

The paper presents fi rst results of the documentation of Tuu languages regarding information structure, based on the analysis of coherent texts, partly supplemented by elicitated utterances. Unmarked clauses display a ...

This paper aims at presenting different ways of expressing focus in Foodo, a Guang language. We can differentiate between marked and unmarked focus strategies. The marked focus expressions are first syntactically characterized: ...

Plato’s Parmenides confronts us with a curious, unusual situation: The Socrates that we know only all too well as the white bearded sagacious old man appears as a young student. Indeed, a student defending his innovative ...

Im Deutschen kann unter bestimmten Bedingungen in Sätzen mit Verb-Zweit-Stellung die präverbale ("topikalisierte")Konstituente ausfallen. Das Phänomen wurde in der traditionellen Grammatik zur Telegramm-Ellipse gerechnet, ...

Im vorliegenden Artikel geht es um die formalen Eigenschaften von Imperativ-Sätzen im Neuhochdeutschen und im Neugriechischen. Semantische und pragmatische Aspekte werden nur insofern berücksichtigt, wie sie für morphologische ...