Information structure : theoretical, typological, and experimental perspectives / edited by Malte Zimmerman and Caroline Fery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zimmermann, Malte, 1970-

Féry, Caroline.

Series:

Oxford linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

xv, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2010]

Contents:

1 Introduction / Malte Zimmermann Zimmermann, Malte, Caroline Féry Féry, Caroline 1

Part I Topic and Focus

2 Second occurrence focus and Relativized Stress F / Mats Rooth Rooth, Mats 15

3 How focus and givenness shape prosody / Caroline Féry Féry, Caroline, Shinichiro Ishihara Ishihara, Shinichiro 36

4 Structural focus and exhaustivity / Katalin É. Kiss Kiss, Katalin É. 64

5 The interpretation of topical indefinites as direct and indirect aboutness topics / Cornelia Ebert Ebert, Cornelia, Stefan Hinterwimmer Hinterwimmer, Stefan 89

6 Contrastive topics operate on speech acts / Satoshi Tomioka Tomioka, Satoshi 115

7 Biased questions, intonation, and discourse / Brian Reese Reese, Brian, Nicholas Asher Asher, Nicholas 139

Part II Cross-Linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change

8 Towards a typology of focus realization / Daniel Büring Büring, Daniel 177

9 Focus in Aghem / Larry M. Hyman Hyman, Larry M., Maria Polinsky Polinsky, Maria 206

10 Subject focus in West African languages / Ines Fiedler Fiedler, Ines, Katharina Hartmann Hartmann, Katharina, Brigitte Reineke Reineke, Brigitte, Anne Schwarz Schwarz, Anne, Malte Zimmermann Zimmermann, Malte 234

11 Information structure and OV order / Porbjörg Hróarsdóttir Hróarsdóttir, Porbjörg 258

12 Information structure and unmarked word order in (Older) Germanic / Roland Hinterhölzl Hinterhölzl, Roland 282

Part III Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches

13 Effects of givenness and constraints on free word order / Stavros Skopeteas Skopeteas, Stavros, Gisbert Fanselow Fanselow, Gisbert 307

14 Investigating effects of structural and information-structural factors on pronoun resolution / Elsi Kaiser Kaiser, Elsi 332

15 Given and new information in spatial statements / Robin Hörnig Hörnig, Robin, Thomas Weskott Weskott, Thomas 354.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199570959

0199570957

OCLC:

313664599