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Information Structure - Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Information Structure - Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives (Hardcover)
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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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