Information Structure: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects

Published by De Gruyter 2004

Information Structure

Theoretical and Empirical Aspects

Edited by: Anita Steube

Volume 1 in the series Language, Context and Cognition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110905892

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About this book

The first volume of the series is devoted to the subjects "information structure" and "contrast". The working hypothesis is that, apart from the use of lexical indication, the expression of contrast vs. correction is primarily carried by the intonation contour as a means for indicating scope and focus in negating constructions. The papers in this volume proceed from the premise that the information structure is preformed conceptually, and on articulation in the dynamic context is then portioned and linearized, mapped onto the syntactic representation via the semantic representation, and finally realized intonationally. The findings are partly based on neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic experiments.

Author / Editor information

Anita Steube is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Leipzig.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Degrees of Contrast and the Topic-Focus Articulation Eva Hajičová and Petr Sgall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Information Structure and Modular Grammar Anita Steube, Kai Alter and Andreas Späth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Negative Descriptions of Events: Semantic and Conceptual Aspects of Sentence Negation and its Relevance for Information Structure Andreas Späth and Martin Trautwein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Two Types of Contrastive Topics? Beáta Gyuris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Information Structure – Two-dimensionally Explicated Ingolf Max Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Topic Constraints in the German Middlefield Brigitta Haftka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Contrastive Word Stress in Vedic Endo- and Exocentric Compounds Rosemarie Lühr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Towards a Scalar Notion of Information Structural Markedness Thomas Weskott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Prosody in Dialogues and Single Sentences: How Prosody can influence Speech Perception Claudia Hruska and Kai Alter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
On the Independence of Information Structural Processing from Prosody Ulrike Toepel and Kai Alter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
The Prosodic Pattern of Contrastive Accent in Russian Grit Mehlhorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Focus Structure and the Processing of Word Order Variations in German Britta Stolterfoht and Markus Bader Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
International Patterns in Contrast and Concession Carla Umbach, Ina Mleinek, Christine Lehmann, Thomas Weskott, Kai Alter and Anita Steube Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Prosody in Contrast Prosodic Distinction of Contrast and Correction Readings of Polish Adversative Coordinate Structures Dorothee Fehrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Short Portraits of the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: Reprint 2013
Pages
- Front matter: 22
- Main content: 360
Illustrations
- Other: Zahlr. Abb.
Keywords: Intonation (Sprache); Syntax; Neurolinguistik; Thema-Rhema-Gliederung; Kognitive Linguistik

eBook

Published: March 1, 2013
ISBN: 9783110905892

Hardcover

Published: September 24, 2004
ISBN: 9783110179347