Information Structure Within Interfaces : Consequences for the Phrase Structure / Asli Gürer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gürer, Asli, Author.

Series:

Interface explorations ; 32.

Interface Explorations [IE] ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phrase structure grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages) : illustrations, charts.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The realization of information structural units has been intriguing as information packaging has reflections in the semantic, pragmatic, syntactic and prosodic domains. This book extends the investigation by bringing data from all these domains and presenting an analysis for the model of grammar.Based on three-way classification for information packaging, semantic investigation presents insights on compositionality and positional restrictions for topic, focus and discourse anaphoric phrases. The prosodic experimental studies reveal how focus shapes prosody and how diverse languages encode such information packaging. Drawing on the findings of experimental studies reflecting the interaction of information structure with quantifier scope, negation and aspectual markers,clause internal functional projections and scope domains are proposed in the syntactic analysis. The analysis offers new perspectives for movement operations, functional categories, phases which are central themes for the Minimalist Program.Building on the investigation of information structure within semantic, prosodic, syntactic perspectives, the book will appeal to researchers working on either of these domains or their interfaces.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Chapter 1. Information structure within interfaces

Chapter 2. Semantic and pragmatic marking of information structure

Chapter 3. Prosodic marking of focus

Chapter 4. Syntactic marking of information structural units

Chapter 5. Revisiting the phrase structure of Turkish

Appendix A. Samples from the first study on the prosody of focus phrases

Appendix B. Samples from the second study on the prosody of focus phrases

Appendix C. Samples from the study on the interaction of information structural units with quantifier scope

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

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ISBN:

9781501505584

1501505580

9781501505560

1501505564

OCLC:

1138495173