Table of contents
Introduction: When data challenges theory. The analysis of information structure and
its paradoxes
1
Part I.Theoretical studies
39
Distinguishing psychological Given/New from linguistic Topic/Focus
makes things clearer
39
Remarks on information structure marking asymmetries: The epistemological view on the micropragmatic profile of
utterances
57
Alternatives to information structure
91
Part II.Case studies: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives
113
How alternatives are created: Specialized background knowledge affects the interpretation of
clefts in discourse
115
Is focus a root phenomenon?
147
The curious case of the rare focus movement in French
183
To be or not to be focus adverbials? A corpus-driven study of It. anche in spontaneous
spoken Italian
203
Unmarked use of marked syntactic structures: Possessives and fronting of non-subject XPs in Bulgarian
Judeo-Spanish
239
Translation as a source of pragmatic interference? An empirical investigation of French and Italian cleft
sentences
271
General index
305
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