Information Structure: Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives
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 accounts of current understanding of how aspects of grammar, such as prosody, syntax, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics, interact in the packing and unpacking of information in communication. They also look at the psycholinguistics behind...
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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 accounts of current understanding of how aspects of grammar, such as prosody, syntax, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics, interact in the packing and unpacking of information in communication. They also look at the psycholinguistics behind the production and perception of information-structural categories. The book reflects the advances in recent research on all central aspects of the subject, including concepts of focus versus background, topic versus comment, and given versus new, and the kinds of inferences required to make sense of different combinations of words, syntax, intonation, and context. The chapters include typological and diachronic perspectives on information structure. Taken as a whole the book demonstrates the productive value of combining.
1. Introduction, Malte Zimmermann and Caroline FéryPart I Topic and Focus 2. Second Occurrence Focus and Relativized Stress F, Mats Rooth3. How Focus and Givenness Shape Prosody, Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara4. Structural Focus and Exhaustivity, Katalin É Kiss5. The Interpretation of Topical Indefinites as Direct and Indirect Aboutness Topics, Cornelia Endriss and Stefan Hinterwimmer6. Contrastive Topics Operate on Speech Acts, Satoshi Tomioka7. Biased Questions, Intonation, and Discourse, Brian Reese and Nicholas AsherPart II Cross-linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change 8. Towards a Typology of Focus Realization, Daniel Büring9. Focus in Aghem, Larry M. Hyman and Maria Polinsky10. Subject Focus in West African Languaegs, Ines Fiedler, Katharina Hartmann, Brigitte Reineke, Anne Schwarz, and Malte Zimmermann11. Information Structure and OV Order, Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir12. Information Structure and Unmarked Word Order in (Older) Germanic, Roland HinterhölzlPart III Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Information Structure 13. Effects of Givenness and Constraints on Free Word order, Stavros Skopeteas and Gisbert Fanselow14. Investigating Effects on Structural and Information-Structural Factors on Pronoun Resolution, Elsi Kaiser15. Given and New Information in Spatial Statements, Robin Hörnig and Thomas Weskott
