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Publication details [#65604]

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt. 2018. Information Structure and Reference Systems: Toward a Non-Aprioristic Typology. Journal of language contact 11 (1) : 139–165.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | information structure | reference system | spoken language | typology

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This paper presents a non-aprioristic method for assaying the fields of information structure and reference systems. It concludes that ‘information structure’ and ‘reference system’ each form a different functional field in some languages.