Information structure [[electronic resource] ] : theoretical, typological, and experimental perspectives / / edited by Malte Zimmerman and Caroline Fery

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (429 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Psycholinguistics
• Altri autori: ZimmermannMalte <1970-> FéryCaroline
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Notes on contributors; Abbreviations and symbols; 1 Introduction; Part I: Topic and Focus; 2 Second occurrence focus and Relativized Stress F; 3 How focus and givenness shape prosody; 4 Structural focus and exhaustivity; 5 The interpretation of topical indefinites as direct and indirect aboutness topics; 6 Contrastive topics operate on speech acts; 7 Biased questions, intonation, and discourse; Part II: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change; 8 Towards a typology of focus realization; 9 Focus in Aghem; 10 Subject focus in West African languages ; 11 Information structure and OV order12 Information structure and unmarked word order in (Older) Germanic; Part III: Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches; 13 Effects of givenness and constraints on free word order; 14 Investigating effects of structural and information-structural factors on pronoun resolution; 15 Given and new information in spatial statements; References; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 thepsycholinguistics behind the production and perception of information-structural categories. The book reflects the advances in rec
• Titolo autorizzato: Information structure
• ISBN: 0-19-161010-0; 1-282-38344-2; 0-19-157191-1; 9786612383441
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792226903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II