On information structure, meaning and form : generalizations across languages
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On information structure, meaning and form : generalizations across languages
（Linguistik aktuell, v. 100）
J. Benjamins, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-557) and indexes
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Description
This collection of articles offers a new and compelling perspective on the interface connecting syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. At the core of this volume is the hypothesis that information structure represents the common interface of these grammatical components. Information structure is investigated here from different theoretical viewpoints yielding typologically relevant information and structural generalizations. In the volume's introductory chapter, the editors identify two central approaches to information structure: the formal and the interpretive view. The remainder of the book is organized accordingly. The first part examines information structure and grammar, concentrating on generalizations across languages. The second part investigates information structure and pragmatics, concentrating on clause structure and context. Through concrete analyses of topic, focus, and related phenomena across different languages, the contributors add new and convincing evidence to the research on information structure.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgments
- 2. On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations Across Languages (by Schwabe, Kerstin)
- 3. Part I Information structure and grammar: Generalizations across languages
- 4. Phases and the typology of focus constructions (by Drubig, Hans Bernhard)
- 5. 1.1 Topics and topicalization across languages
- 6. The prosody of topicalization (by Fery, Caroline)
- 7. Types of topics in German and Italian (by Frascarelli, Mara)
- 8. The Korean particle nun, the English fall-rise accent, and thetic/categorical judgements (by Hetland, Jorunn)
- 9. Topicalization in Malagasy, Tagalog and Tsou (by Law, Paul)
- 10. On the discourse configurationality of West Germanic (by Molnarfi, Laszlo)
- 11. Topic, focus and default vs. contrastive accent: typological differences with respect to discourse prominence (by Abraham, Werner)
- 12. 1.2 Focus and focus movement across languages
- 13. Identifying inferences in focus (by Wedgwood, Dan)
- 14. Focus structure and the interpretation of multiple questions (by Suranyi, Balazs)
- 15. Focus structure, movement to spec-Foc and syntactic processing (by Breul, Carsten)
- 16. Focus and marked positions for VP adverbs (by Gobbel, Edward)
- 17. Ellipsis and inversion: A feature-based focus account (by Gergel, Remus)
- 18. Subject/object-asymmetry in Northern Sotho (by Zerbian, Sabine)
- 19. Wide focus interpretation with fronted focus exponents in Czech (by Lenertova, Denisa)
- 20. In place - out of place? Focus strategies in Hausa (by Hartmann, Katharina)
- 21. Part II Information structure and pragmatics: Clause structure and context
- 22. Instructions for interpretation as separate performatives (by Portner, Paul)
- 23. Interrogative complement clauses (by Schwabe, Kerstin)
- 24. The syntax and pragmatics of embedded yes/no questions (by Eckardt, Regine)
- 25. Toward a uniform analysis of short answers and gapping (by Reich, Ingo)
- 26. Alternative Semantics for definite NPs (by Heusinger, Klaus von)
- 27. The information structure of bare plurals in English and Italian (by Cohen, Ariel)
- 28. References
- 29. Name index
- 30. Subject index
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