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Information Structure: Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives

Information Structure: Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives

Zimmermann, Malte
Féry, Caroline

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0199570957
ISBN13: 9780199570959
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: Dec 20 2009
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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.

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