Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages
Studies in prosody and syntax
The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely, if ever, taken into account in the most prominent approaches in information structure theory, and which belong to the Afroasiatic, Amerindian, Australian, Caucasian, and Niger-Congo language stocks. In addition to the significant descriptive value of these pioneering contributions, several studies also draw attention to previously undescribed or typologically rare phenomena. By adapting a variety of methods to under-described and endangered languages, ranging from experimental to naturalistic corpus studies, this volume also aims to serve as an invitation for further research in this direction.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 199] 2018. vi, 450 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 20 July 2018
Published online on 20 July 2018
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Investigating information structure in lesser-known and endangered languages: An introductionEvangelia Adamou, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove | pp. 1–14
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Part I. Prosody and information structure: Methods and analyses
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Chapter 2. Prosodic separation of postverbal material in Georgian: A corpus study on syntax-phonology interfaceStavros Skopeteas, Caroline Féry and Rusudan Asatiani | pp. 17–50
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Chapter 3. Prosodic and morphological focus marking in Ixcatec (Otomanguean)Evangelia Adamou, Matthew Gordon and Stefan Th. Gries | pp. 51–84
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Chapter 4. On being firstCandide Simard | pp. 85–118
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Chapter 5. Factors behind variation in marking information structure: Contributions from Central PomoMarianne Mithun | pp. 119–156
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Chapter 6. Macrosyntactic corpus annotation: The case of ZaarBernard Caron | pp. 157–192
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Part II. Syntax and information structure: Corpus-driven studies
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Chapter 7. Focus marking and differential argument marking: The emergence of bidirectional case marking in WanTatiana Nikitina | pp. 195–216
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Chapter 8. A topic-marking cleft? Analyzing clause-initial pronouns in MovimaKatharina Haude
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Chapter 9. Subjects and focus in clefts: The case of Tilapa OtomiEnrique L. Palancar | pp. 245–264
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Chapter 10. The influence of the state distinction on word order and information structure in Kabyle and Siwi (Berber)Amina Mettouchi and Valentina Schiattarella | pp. 265–296
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Chapter 11. Information structure in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of TelkepeEleanor Coghill | pp. 297–328
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Chapter 12. Information structure in a spoken corpus of Cameroon Pidgin EnglishMelanie Green and Gabriel Ozón | pp. 329–356
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Part III. Views from better described languages: Theories and methods
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Chapter 13. The illocutionary basis of information structure: The Language into Act Theory (L-AcT)Emanuela Cresti and Massimo Moneglia
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Chapter 14. Annotation guidelines for Questions under Discussion and information structureArndt Riester, Lisa Brunetti and Kordula De Kuthy | pp. 403–444
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Language index | pp. 445–446
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Notion index | pp. 447–450
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2022. Alternatives to information structure. In When Data Challenges Theory [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 273], ► pp. 92 ff. 
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax