Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English

• Acknowledgments | p. xi
• 1. Introduction | p. 1
• Preposing and Postposing Constructions
• Theoretical Framework
• Data
• Notational Conventions
• 2. Preposing | p. 31
• Topicalization
• Focus Preposing
• Left-Dislocation
• Summary
• 3. Postposing | p. 97
• General Constraints
• Definites in ‘There’-Sentences
• Right-Dislocation
• Summary
• 4. Argument Reversal | p. 155
• Inversion
• Passivization
• PP Preposing with ‘There’-Insertion
• Summary
• 5. Noncanonical Word Order and Discourse Structure | p. 213
• Commonalities and Differences Across Constructions
• Linking Relations and Noncanonical Word Order
• Open Propositions and Locative Constituents
• Intonation
• Toward a Unified Theory of Noncanonical Word Order
• 6. Extensions and Implications | p. 259
• Crosslinguistic Extensions
• Summary of Constraints on Noncanonical Word Order
• Theoretical Implications
• Appendix | p. 285
• Index | p. 307

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