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Contrasts and positions in information structure
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ISBN: 9781107001985 9780511740084 9781107595767 9781139525701 1139525700 9781139528092 1139528092 1283574721 9781283574723 0511740085 1107001986 1107226686 113953971X 9786613887177 1139526901 1139531565 1139530372 1107595762 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Abstract

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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