Full Description
This book 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. Following the editors' introduction the book is divided into four parts. The first, on theories of and theoretical perspectives on information structure, includes chapters on focus, topic, and givenness. Part 2 covers a range of current issues in the field, including quantification, dislocation, and intonation, while Part 3 is concerned with experimental approaches to information structure, including language processing and acquisition. The final part contains a series of linguistic case studies drawn from a wide variety of the world's language families. This volume will be the standard guide to current work in information structure and a major point of departure for future research.
Contents
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The Contributors
1: Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara: Introduction
Part I: Theories of Information Structure
2: Mats Rooth: Alternative Semantics
3: Michael Rochemont: Givenness
4: Daniel Büring: (Contrastive) Topic
5: Leah Velleman and David Beaver: Question-based Models of Information Structure
6: Laurence R. Horn: Information Structure and the Landscape of (Non-) at-issue Meaning
7: Kjell Johan Sæbø: Information Structure and Presupposition
8: Enoch O. Aboh: Information Structure: A Cartographic Perspective
9: Maria Luisa Zubizarreta: Nuclear Stress and Information Structure
10: Karlos Arregi: Focus Projection Theories
11: Vieri Samek-Lodovici: Constraint Conflict and Information Structure
Part II: Current Issues on Information Structure
12: Sigrid Beck: Focus Sensitive Operators
13: Manfred Krifka: Quantification and Information Structure
14: Sophie Repp: Contrast: Dissecting an Elusive Information-structural Notion and its Role in Grammar
15: Horst Lohnstein: Verum Focus
16: Malte Zimmermann: Predicate Focus
17: Patrick G. Grosz: Information Structure and Discourse Particles
18: Susanne Winkler: Ellipsis and Information Structure
19: Ad Neeleman and Hans van de Koot: Word Order and Information Structure
20: Luis López: Dislocations and Information Structure
21: Balázs Surányi: Discourse-configurationality
22: Sara Myrberg and Tomas Riad: On the Expression of Focus in the Metrical Grid and in the Prosodic Hierarchy
23: Hubert Truckenbrodt: Focus, Intonation, and Tonal Height
24: Stefan Baumann: Second Occurrence Focus
25: Regine Eckardt and Augustin Speyer: Information Structure and Language Change
Part III: Experimental Approaches to Information Structure
26: Elsi Kaiser: Information Structure and Language Comprehension: Insights from Psycholinguistics
27: Michael Wagner: Information Structure and Production Planning
28: Barbara Höhle, Frauke Berger, and Antje Sauermann: Information Structure in First Language Acquisition
29: Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Petra B. Schumacher: Towards a Neurobiology of Information Structure
30: Anke Lüdeling, Julia Ritz, Manfred Stede, and Amir Zeldes: Corpus Linguistics and Information Structure Research
Part IV: Language Studies on Information Structure
31: Gisbert Fanselow: Syntactic and Prosodic Reflexes of Information Structure in Germanic
32: Cecilia Poletto and Giuliano Bocci: Syntactic and Prosodic Effects of Information Structure in Romance
33: Katalin É. Kiss: Discourse Functions: The Case of Hungarian
34: Stavros Skopeteas: Information Structure in Modern Greek
35: Katja Jasinskaya: Information Structure in Slavic
36: Yiya Chen, Peppina Po-lun Lee, and Haihua Pa: Topic and Focus Marking in Chinese
37: Satoshi Tomioka: Information Structure in Japanese
38: Alexis Michaud and Marc Brunelle: Information Structure in Asia: Yongning Na (Sino-Tibetan) and Vietnamese (Austroasiatic)
39: Laura Downing and Larry M. Hyman: Information Structure in Bantu
40: Vadim Kimmelman and Roland Pfau: Information Structure in Sign Languages
References
Subject Index
Language Index
