The Oxford handbook of information structure / edited by Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Féry, Caroline, editor.

Ishihara, Shinichiro, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Monthly

Other Title:

Information structure

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014-

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text file

Summary:

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. For more information, please read the site FAQs. This text provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure. Leading researchers survey the main theories of information structure in syntax, phonology, and semantics as well as perspectives from psycholinguistics and other relevant fields.

Contents:

Alternative Semantics / Mats Rooth

Givenness / Michael Rochemont

(Contrastive) Topic / Daniel Büring

Question-based models of information structure / Leah Velleman, David Beaver

Information Structure and the Landscape of (non-)at-issue Meaning / Laurence Horn

Information Structure and Presupposition / Kjell Johan Sæbø

Information Structure / Enoch Aboh

Nuclear Stress and Information Structure / Maria Luisa Zubizarreta

Focus Projection Theories / Karlos Arregi

Constraint Conflict and Information Structure / Vieri Samek-Lodovici

Focus Sensitive Operators / Sigrid Beck

Quantification and Information Structure / Manfred Krifka

Contrast / Sophie Repp

Verum Focus / Horst Lohnstein

Predicate Focus / Malte Zimmermann

Information Structure and Discourse Particles / Patrick G. Grosz

Ellipsis and Information Structure / Susanne Winkler

Word Order and Information Structure / Ad Neeleman, Hans van de Koot

Dislocations and Information Structure / Luis López

Discourse-configurationality / Balázs Surányi

Second occurrence focus / Stefan Baumann

Information structure and language change / Regine Eckardt, Augustin Speyer

Information Structure and Language Comprehension / Elsi Kaiser

Information Structure and Production Planning / Michael Wagner

Information Structure in First Language Acquisition / Barbara Höhle, Frauke Berger, Antje Sauermann

Towards a Neurobiology of Information Structure / Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Petra B. Schumacher

Corpus Linguistics / Anke Lüdeling, Julia Ritz, Manfred Stede, Amir Zeldes

Syntactic and Prosodic Reflexes of Information Structure in Germanic / Gisbert Fanselow

Syntactic and prosodic effects of Information Structure in Romance / Cecilia Poletto, Giuliano Bocci

Discourse functions: The case of Hungarian / Katalin É. Kiss

Information structure in Modern Greek / Stavros Skopeteas

Information Structure in Slavic / Katja Jasinskaja

Information structure in Asia: Yongning Na (Sino-Tibetan) and Vietnamese (Austroasiatic) / Alexis Michaud, Marc Brunelle

Information Structure in Bantu / Laura J. Downing, Larry M. Hyman

Information structure in sign languages / Vadim Kimmelman, Roland Pfau.

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ISBN:

9780191750205

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