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Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure [Paperback / softback]

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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 356 pages, height x width x depth: 230x154x20 mm, weight: 530 g, 3 Tables, black and white; 25 Line drawings, unspecified
  • Pub. Date: 17-Dec-2015
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107595762
  • ISBN-13: 9781107595767
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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 356 pages, height x width x depth: 230x154x20 mm, weight: 530 g, 3 Tables, black and white; 25 Line drawings, unspecified
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  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107595762
  • ISBN-13: 9781107595767
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Information structure, or the way the information in a sentence is 'divided' into categories such as topic, focus, comment, background, and old versus new information, is one of the most widely debated topics in linguistics. This volume incorporates exciting work on the relationship between syntax and information structure. The contributors are united in rejecting accounts that assume designated syntactic positions associated with specific information-structural interpretations, and aim instead to derive information-structural conditions on word order and other phenomena from the way syntax and syntax-external systems interact. Beyond this shared aim, the authors of the various chapters advocate a number of approaches, based on different types of data (syntactic, semantic, phonological/phonetic) from a range of languages. The book is aimed at specialists in syntax and/or information structure, as well as students and linguists in related fields keen to familiarise themselves with current issues in this fascinating area of research.

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This volume brings together exciting research on the relationship between syntax and information structure, developing an interface-based approach.
1. Introduction Ivona Kuerová and Ad Neeleman; Part I. The Architecture
of Grammar and the Primitives of Information Structure:
2. Predicate
integration: phrase structure or argument structure? Daniel Büring;
3.
Wh-intonation and information structure in South Kyeongsang Korean and Tokyo
Japanese Hyun Kyung Hwang;
4. Grammatical marking of givenness Ivona
Kuerová;
5. Interface configurations: identificational focus and the
flexibility of syntax Balázs Surányi;
6. Focus and givenness: a unified
approach Michael Wagner;
7. The locality of focusing and the coherence of
anaphors Edwin Williams; Part II. Exploring the Interfaces: Case Studies:
8.
NP ellipsis without focus movement/projections: the role of classifiers
Artemis Alexiadou and Kirsten Gengel;
9. Focus in Greek wh-questions Theodora
Alexopoulou and Mary Baltazani;
10. Against FocusP: arguments from Zulu Lisa
Lai-Shen Cheng and Laura J. Downing;
11. Scrambling as formal movement
Gisbert Fanselow;
12. Left peripheral arguments and discourse interface
strategies in Yucatec Maya Stavros Skopeteas and Elisabeth Verhoeven;
References.
Ivona Kuerová is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at McMaster University, Ontario. She specialises in the syntax-semantics and the semantics-morphology interface. Ad Neeleman is Professor of Linguistics at University College London. His research focuses on the theory of syntax and the interaction between syntax and syntax-external systems. He has published some forty research papers and is the author of Flexible Syntax (1999) with Fred Weerman and Beyond Morphology (2004) with Peter Ackema.