Zimmermann, Malte.
Information Structure : Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives. - 1 online resource (429 pages)
Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Abbreviations and symbols -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Topic and Focus -- 2 Second occurrence focus and Relativized Stress F -- 3 How focus and givenness shape prosody -- 4 Structural focus and exhaustivity -- 5 The interpretation of topical indefinites as direct and indirect aboutness topics -- 6 Contrastive topics operate on speech acts -- 7 Biased questions, intonation, and discourse -- Part II: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change -- 8 Towards a typology of focus realization -- 9 Focus in Aghem -- 10 Subject focus in West African languages -- 11 Information structure and OV order -- 12 Information structure and unmarked word order in (Older) Germanic -- Part III: Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches -- 13 Effects of givenness and constraints on free word order -- 14 Investigating effects of structural and information-structural factors on pronoun resolution -- 15 Given and new information in spatial statements -- References -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Leading scholars present state-of-the-art overviews of approaches to information structure in natural language and its interaction with general principles of human cognition and communication. The chapters include typological and diachronic perspectives and demonstrate the value of combining theoretical and experimental approaches.
9780191571916
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Psycholinguistics.
Electronic books.
P241.I54 2010
415
Information Structure : Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives. - 1 online resource (429 pages)
Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Abbreviations and symbols -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Topic and Focus -- 2 Second occurrence focus and Relativized Stress F -- 3 How focus and givenness shape prosody -- 4 Structural focus and exhaustivity -- 5 The interpretation of topical indefinites as direct and indirect aboutness topics -- 6 Contrastive topics operate on speech acts -- 7 Biased questions, intonation, and discourse -- Part II: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change -- 8 Towards a typology of focus realization -- 9 Focus in Aghem -- 10 Subject focus in West African languages -- 11 Information structure and OV order -- 12 Information structure and unmarked word order in (Older) Germanic -- Part III: Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches -- 13 Effects of givenness and constraints on free word order -- 14 Investigating effects of structural and information-structural factors on pronoun resolution -- 15 Given and new information in spatial statements -- References -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Leading scholars present state-of-the-art overviews of approaches to information structure in natural language and its interaction with general principles of human cognition and communication. The chapters include typological and diachronic perspectives and demonstrate the value of combining theoretical and experimental approaches.
9780191571916
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Psycholinguistics.
Electronic books.
P241.I54 2010
415