Information structure
Table of contents
Grammars of natural languages offer speakers a variety of options for expressing the same basic informational content. To take a simple example from English, the sentences in (1a)–(1j) can all be used to convey the information that a particular dog chased a particular cat.
References
Bak, S.-Y.
Birner, B.J. & G. Ward
Bosch, P. & R. Van Der Sandt
Chafe, W.L.
Chomsky, N.
1971 Deep structure, surface structure and semantic interpretation. In D. Steinberg & L. Jakobovits (eds.) Semantics an Interdisciplinary Reader in Linguistics, Philosophy and Psychology: 183–216. Cambridge University Press. BoP
Daneš, F.
Dooley, R.A.
Erteschik-Shir, N.
Firbas, J.
Fodor, J.D. & I. Sag
Fretheim, T.
1987 Pragmatics and intonation. In J. Verschueren & M. Bertuccelli-Papi (eds.)395–420. The Pragmatic Perspective: John Benjamins. BoP
in press) The interaction of right-dislocated pronominals and intonational phrasing in Norwegian. In W. Van Dommelen & T. Fretheim (eds.)
Nordic Prosody: Proceedings of the VIIIth Conference
Peter Lang
Von Der Gabelenz, G.
Gundel, J.K.
Gundel, J.K., N. Hedberg & R. Zacharski
Halliday, M.A.K.
Hedberg, N.
Heim, I.R.
Hetland, J.
Jackendoff, R.
Johannson, M.
Kuno, S.
Ladd, D.R.
Lambrecht, K.
1994 Information structure and sentence form. topic focus, and the mental representation of discourse referents. Cambridge University Press. BoP
Lee, C.
Li, C.N. & S.A. Thompson
Mathesius, V.
1928 On linguistic characterology with illustrations from Modern English. Actes du Premier Congrès International de Linguistes à La Haye: 56–63. (Reprinted in J. Vachek (ed.). (1964) A Prague School reader in linguistics: 59–67. Indiana University Press). BoP
Reinhart, T.
Sgall, P., E. Haji & E. Benečová
Sgall, P., E. Haji & J. Panevová
Sperber, D. & D. Wilson
Steedman, M.
Vallduví, E. & M. Vilkuna
Zacharski, R.
Ziv, Y. & B. Grosz
1994 Right dislocation and attentional state.
Proceedings of the 9th annual conference and of the workshop on discourse
: 184–199. The Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics.