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 Information structure

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 thepsycholinguistics behind the production and perception of information-structural categories. The book reflects the advances in rec

Contents:

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 order12 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-161010-0

1-282-38344-2

0-19-157191-1

9786612383441

OCLC:

536246947