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9780199570959

Information Structure Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives

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    9780199570959

  • ISBN10:

    0199570957

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-12-20
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

In this book leading scholars provide state-of-the-art overviews of approaches to the formal expression of information structure in natural language and its interaction with general principles of human cognition and communication. They present critical ac

Author Biography


Malte Zimmermann and Caroline Fery are Professors of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam. Professor Zimmermann's research interests are in quantification and focus. His published work includes articles in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Natural Language Semantics. Professor Fery has published extensively in all aspects of phonology and phonological theory, including the role of prosody and intonation in information structure. She is the co-editor of Gradience in Grammar (OUP 2006).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Topic and Focus
Second Occurrence Focus and Relativized Stress F
How Focus and Givenness Shape Prosody
Structural Focus and Exhaustivity
The Interpretation of Topical Indefinites as Direct and Indirect Aboutness Topics
Contrastive Topics Operate on Speech Acts
Biased Questions, Intonation, and Discourse
Cross-linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change
Towards a Typology of Focus Realization
Focus in Aghem
Subject Focus in West African Languaegs
Information Structure and OV Order
Information Structure and Unmarked Word Order in (Older) Germanic
Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Information Structure
Effects of Givenness and Constraints on Free Word order
Investigating Effects on Structural and Information-Structural Factors on Pronoun Resolution
Given and New Information in Spatial Statements
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