Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure Other

abstract

• Information structure, or the way the information in a sentence is 'divided' into categories such as topic, focus, comment, background, and old versus new information, is one of the most widely debated topics in linguistics. This volume incorporates exciting work on the relationship between syntax and information structure. The contributors are united in rejecting accounts that assume designated syntactic positions associated with specific information-structural interpretations, and aim instead to derive information-structural conditions on word order and other phenomena from the way syntax and syntax-external systems interact. Beyond this shared aim, the authors of the various chapters advocate a number of approaches, based on different types of data (syntactic, semantic, phonological/phonetic) from a range of languages. The book is aimed at specialists in syntax and/or information structure, as well as students and linguists in related fields keen to familiarise themselves with current issues in this fascinating area of research.

authors

• Kucerova, Ivona
• Kučerová, I
• Neeleman, A

status

• published 

publication date

• July 26, 2012

published in

• Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure  Journal

keywords

• Language Arts & Disciplines

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/cbo9780511740084

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 1139536230

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781107001985

start page

• 1

end page

• 276