The Expression of Information Structure
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The Expression of Information Structure

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The Expression of Information Structure

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Information structure deals with the linguistic forms and techniques that support the integration of what is said into the current informational and attentional state of the addressee. This shows in categories like topic-comment structuring, focus to highlight expressions, marking of givenness and of presupposed information, and ways to indicate that the information provided is restricted. The book relates infor-mation structure to theoretical models of grammar, to computation and modelling and brings together what is known about the expression of information structure in human language with regard to its empirical investigation, its psycholinguistic aspects and the acquisition of information structure.

Since the need to integrate what is said into the informational and attentional state of the addressee is central to all human communication, it is not surprising that all natural languages have developed devices to express information structural cate-gories. To illustrate this, the book also provides concrete and theory independent descriptions of the information structural encoding strategies of individual languages of different types.
The book can be used as a textbook appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses; it also provides information for linguists that are not specialists in the field.

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2012
ISBN
9783110261608
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Information structure: Overview and linguistic issues
  2. The information structure of Chinese
  3. The information structure of English
  4. The information structure of French
  5. The information structure of Georgian
  6. The information structure of Hungarian
  7. The information structure of Japanese
  8. The empirical investigation of information structure
  9. The prosodic investigation of information structure
  10. The psychology of information structure
  11. The acquisition of information structure
  12. Computation and modeling of information structure
  13. Information structure and theoretical models of grammar
  14. Contributors
  15. Index of subjects
  16. Index of persons