Information structure : theoretical and empirical aspects / edited by Anita Steube.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steube, Anita.

Series:

Language, context, and cognition ; v. 1.

Language, context, and cognition ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Contrastive linguistics.

Semantics.

Intonation (Phonetics).

Focus (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xxii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2004]

Contents:

Degrees of contrast and the topic-focus articulation / Eva Hajicová and Petr Sgall

Information structure and modular grammar / Anita Steube, Kai Alter, and Andreas Späth

Negative descriptions of events / Andreas Späth and Martin Trautwein

Types of contrastive topics? / Beáta Gyuris

Information structure

two-dimensionally explicated / Ingolf Max

Topic constraints in the German middlefield / Brigitta Haftka

Contrastive word stress in Vedic endo- and exocentric compounds / Rosemarie Lühr

Towards a scalar notion of information structural markedness / Thomas Weskott

Prosody in dialogues and single sentences / Claudia Hruska and Kai Alter

On the independence of information structural processing from prosody / Ulrike Toepel and Kai Alter

The prosodic pattern of contrastive accent in Russian / Grit Mehlhorn

Focus structure and the processing of word order variations in German / Britta Stolterfoht and Markus Bader

Intonational patterns in contrast and concession / Carla Umbach, Ina Mleinek, Christine Lehmann, Thomas Weskott, Kai Alter, and Anita Steube

Prosody in contrast / Dorothee Fehrmann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3110179342

OCLC:

56493972