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Information Structure
Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives
Malte Zimmermann and Caroline Féry
432 pages
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Tables, Figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-957095-9
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Hardback
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29 October 2009
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- Addresses central perspectives on a subject of great current interest
- Authors are prominent scholars from Europe and the USA
- Combines theoretical and experimental approaches
- Includes diachronic, psycholinguistic, and typological approaches
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 the psycholinguistics behind the production and perception of information-structural categories. The book reflects the advances in recent research on all central aspects of the subject,
including concepts of focus versus background, topic versus comment, and given versus new, and the kinds of inferences required to make sense of different combinations of words, syntax, intonation, and context. The chapters include typological and diachronic perspectives on information structure. Taken as a whole the book demonstrates the productive value of combining
theoretical and experimental approaches.Readership: This book will interest linguists and cognitive scientists at graduate level and above.
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Malte Zimmermann, University of Potsdam, and Caroline Féry, University of Potsdam Contributors:
Malte Zimmermann, University of Potsdam
Caroline Féry, University of Potsdam
Nicholas Asher, University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Büring, University of California, Los Angeles
Cornelia Endriss, University of Osnabruck
Gisbert Fanselow, University of Potsdam
Ines Fiedler, Humboldt Univerity in Berlin
Katharina Hartmann, Humboldt University in Berlin
Roland Hinterhölzl, Humboldt University in Berlin
Stefan Hinterwimmer, Humboldt
University in Berlin
Robin Hörnig, University of Potsdam
Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir, University of Tromsø
Larry M. Hyman, University of California Berkeley
Shinichiro Ishihara, University of Potsdam
Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California
Katalin É Kiss, Hungarian Academy of Science
Maria Polinsky, Harvard University
Brian Reese, University of Minnesota
Brigitte Reineke, Humboldt University in Berlin
Mats Rooth, Cornell University
Anne Schwarz, Humboldt University in Berlin
Stavros Skopeteas, University of Potsdam
Satoshi Tomioka, University of Delaware
Thomas Weskott, University of Potsdam
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"a significant and welcome contribution to the current intense interest in linguistic theorising of information structure and succeeds in highlighting the value of considering different approaches for theoretical linguists, psycholinguists, and typologists alike." - Reiko Vermeulen, The Journal of Linguistics
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1: Malte Zimmermann and Caroline Féry: Introduction
Part I Topic and Focus
2: Mats Rooth: Second Occurrence Focus and Relativized Stress F
3: Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara: How Focus and Givenness Shape Prosody
4: Katalin É Kiss: Structural Focus and Exhaustivity
5: Cornelia Endriss and Stefan Hinterwimmer: The Interpretation of Topical Indefinites as Direct and Indirect Aboutness Topics
6: Satoshi Tomioka: Contrastive Topics Operate on Speech Acts
7: Brian Reese and Nicholas Asher: Biased Questions, Intonation, and Discourse
Part II Cross-linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change
8: Daniel Büring: Towards a Typology of Focus Realization
9: Larry M. Hyman and Maria Polinsky: Focus in Aghem
10: Ines Fiedler, Katharina Hartmann, Brigitte Reineke, Anne Schwarz, and Malte Zimmermann: Subject Focus in West African Languaegs
11: Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir: Information Structure and OV Order
12: Roland Hinterhölzl: Information Structure and Unmarked Word Order in (Older) Germanic
Part III Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Information Structure
13: Stavros Skopeteas and Gisbert Fanselow: Effects of Givenness and Constraints on Free Word order
14: Elsi Kaiser: Investigating Effects on Structural and Information-Structural Factors on Pronoun Resolution
15: Robin Hörnig and Thomas Weskott: Given and New Information in Spatial Statements
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