The Expression of Information Structure

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2012

The Expression of Information Structure

Edited by: Manfred Krifka and Renate Musan

Volume 5 in the series The Expression of Cognitive Categories [ECC]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110261608

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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.

Author / Editor information

Manfred Krifka, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; Renate Musan, University of Osnabrück, Germany.

Reviews

"‘The Expression of Information Structure’ discusses the most important issues and offers a rich overview of the most significant studies. [...] the volume provides the reader with useful methodological tools to undertake these kinds of investigation."
Jacopo Torregrossa in: Linguist List 24.1765

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Information structure: Overview and linguistic issues Manfred Krifka and Renate Musan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The information structure of Chinese Daniel Hole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
The information structure of English Susanne Winkler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
The information structure of French Wolfgang Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
The information structure of Georgian Rusudan Asatiani and Stavros Skopeteas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
The information structure of Hungarian Beáta Gyuris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
The information structure of Japanese Reiko Vermeulen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
The empirical investigation of information structure Stavros Skopeteas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
The prosodic investigation of information structure Aoju Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
The psychology of information structure Heidi Wind Cowles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
The acquisition of information structure Christine Dimroth and Bhuvana Narasimhan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Computation and modeling of information structure Manfred Stede Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Information structure and theoretical models of grammar Ingo Reich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
Index of persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	460

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 468
Illustrations
- Tables: 2
Keywords: Cognitive Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Information Structure

eBook

Published: August 31, 2012
ISBN: 9783110261608

Hardcover

Published: August 17, 2012
ISBN: 9783110260083