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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.

Psycholinguistics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Psycholinguistique --- Sujet et prédicat (linguistique) --- Analyse de la conversation --- Grammaire comparée --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Phrase structure grammar. --- Conversation analysis. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Psycholinguistics. --- Topic and comment. --- Conversation analysis --- Phrase structure grammar --- Constituent structure grammar --- Grammar, Phrase structure --- Generative grammar --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Discourse analysis --- Analysis of conversation --- CA (Interpersonal communication) --- Conversational analysis --- Oral communication --- Language, Psychology of --- Language and languages --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Topic and comment --- Subject and predicate --- Syntax --- Psychological aspects --- Psycholinguistique. --- Analyse de la conversation. --- Grammaire comparée. --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Information Structure. --- Sujet et prédicat (linguistique) --- Grammaire comparée.

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Reconstruction effects in relative clauses are a class of phenomena where the external head of the relative clause seems to behave as if it occupied a position within the relative clause, as far as some commonly accepted principle of grammar is concerned. An often cited type of example is "The [relative of his] [which every man admires most] is his mother.", where the pronoun "his" in the relative head appears to be bound by the quantified noun phrase "every man" in the relative clause - although the latter does not c-command the former, which is commonly required for binding. Several solutions have been developed in various theoretical frameworks. One interesting aspect about reconstruction effects in relative clauses is that they can be used as a benchmark for competing theories of grammar: Which architecture of the syntax-semantics interface can provide the most satisfying explanation for these phenomena? This volume brings together researchers working in different frameworks but looking at the same set of empirical facts, enabling the reader to develop their own perspective on the perfect tradeoff between syntax and semantics in a theory of grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Reconstruction (Linguistics) --- Relative clauses. --- connectivity. --- reconstruction. --- relative clauses. --- syntax-semantics interface.

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The volume is dedicated to the German linguist Wolfgang Ullrich "Gustav" Wurzel (1940-2001), who has influenced linguistic thought in his work on paradigm-based morphology. All contributors to the volume deal with Wurzel's work and thinking, who in his theoretical writings focused on the concepts of naturalness, markedness and complexity in human language. The authors discuss diachronic and typological aspects of morphology, i.e. the nature of paradigms, the rise and fall of inflectional morphology, and the development and systems of gender marking, also in regard to the interface with phonolo

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Naturalness (Linguistics). --- Inflection. --- Morphology. --- Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich. --- Grammar --- Flexion (Linguistique) --- Morphologie (Linguistique) --- Naturalité (Linguistique) --- Naturalness (Linguistics) --- Natural class (Linguistics) --- Inflectional morphology --- Wurzel, W. U. --- Wurzel, Gustav --- Linguistics --- Morphology (Linguistics) --- Inflection --- Language and languages --- Morphology --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Morphology

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Analyse du discours --- Focus (Linguistique) --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Informatiestructuren (linguïstiek). --- Marqueurs du discours