TY - BOOK ID - 638039 TI - The expression of information structure AU - Krifka, Manfred AU - Musan, Renate PY - 2012 VL - 5 SN - 9783110260083 9783110261608 311026160X 9783110262148 3110262142 3110260085 1283627876 9786613940322 PB - Berlin Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, DB - UniCat KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Grammar KW - Pragmatics KW - Psycholinguistique KW - Sujet et prédicat (linguistique) KW - Analyse de la conversation KW - Grammaire comparée KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Phrase structure grammar. KW - Conversation analysis. KW - Focus (Linguistics) KW - Psycholinguistics. KW - Topic and comment. KW - Conversation analysis KW - Phrase structure grammar KW - Constituent structure grammar KW - Grammar, Phrase structure KW - Generative grammar KW - Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) KW - Predicate and subject (Grammar) KW - Subject and predicate (Grammar) KW - Theme and rheme KW - Topic and comment (Grammar) KW - Discourse analysis KW - Analysis of conversation KW - CA (Interpersonal communication) KW - Conversational analysis KW - Oral communication KW - Language, Psychology of KW - Language and languages KW - Psychology of language KW - Speech KW - Linguistics KW - Psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - Topic and comment KW - Subject and predicate KW - Syntax KW - Psychological aspects KW - Psycholinguistique. KW - Analyse de la conversation. KW - Grammaire comparée. KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment KW - Cognitive Linguistics. KW - Information Structure. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:638039 AB - 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. ER -