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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