Information Structure

Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives
Ed. by Malte Zimmermann and Caroline Fery

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 theoretical and experimental approaches.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Linguistics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 167mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 792g
• ISBN-13: 9780199570959
• ISBN-10: 0199570957
• Artikelnr.: 26175270

Autorenporträt

Malte Zimmermann and Caroline Féry are Professors of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam. Professor Zimmermann's research interests are in quantification and focus. His published work includes articles in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Natural Language Semantics. Professor Féry has published extensively in all aspects of phonology and phonological theory, including the role of prosody and intonation in information structure. She is the co-editor of Gradience in Grammar (OUP 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Malte Zimmermann and Caroline Féry: Introduction
* Part I Topic and Focus
* 2: Mats Rooth: Second Occurrence Focus and Relativized Stress F
* 3: Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara: How Focus and Givenness
Shape Prosody
* 4: Katalin É Kiss: Structural Focus and Exhaustivity
* 5: Cornelia Endriss and Stefan Hinterwimmer: The Interpretation of
Topical Indefinites as Direct and Indirect Aboutness Topics
* 6: Satoshi Tomioka: Contrastive Topics Operate on Speech Acts
* 7: Brian Reese and Nicholas Asher: Biased Questions, Intonation, and
Discourse
* Part II Cross-linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change
* 8: Daniel Büring: Towards a Typology of Focus Realization
* 9: Larry M. Hyman and Maria Polinsky: Focus in Aghem
* 10: Ines Fiedler, Katharina Hartmann, Brigitte Reineke, Anne Schwarz,
and Malte Zimmermann: Subject Focus in West African Languaegs
* 11: Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir: Information Structure and OV Order
* 12: Roland Hinterhölzl: Information Structure and Unmarked Word Order
in (Older) Germanic
* Part III Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Information
Structure
* 13: Stavros Skopeteas and Gisbert Fanselow: Effects of Givenness and
Constraints on Free Word order
* 14: Elsi Kaiser: Investigating Effects on Structural and
Information-Structural Factors on Pronoun Resolution
* 15: Robin Hörnig and Thomas Weskott: Given and New Information in
Spatial Statements

Rezensionen

a significant and welcome contribution to the current intense interest in linguistic theorising of information structure and succeeds in highlighting the value of considering different approaches for theoretical linguists, psycholinguists, and typologists alike. Reiko Vermeulen, The Journal of Linguistics