Information structure : the syntax-discourse interface
This introduction to the role of information structure in grammar discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface. It examines theories of information structure and considers their effectiveness in explaining whether and how information structure maps onto syntax in...
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| Language | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2007
Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Architectures and Information Structure Inventory -- 2.1. Inventory: topics -- 2.1.1. Danish topicalization -- 2.1.2. Catalan: Links and Tails -- 2.1.3. Topics and truth values -- 2.1.4. Stage topics -- 2.1.5. Permanently available topics -- 2.1.6. Topic tests -- 2.1.7. Multiple topics -- 2.1.8. Topic drop -- 2.1.9. Scope and topic properties -- 2.2. Inventory: foci -- 2.2.1. Semantic definitions -- 2.2.2. Marking foci by stress -- 2.2.3. Deriving foci from stress -- 2.2.4. Deriving stress from syntax -- 2.2.5. Deriving syntax from IS -- 2.2.6. Deriving focus pragmatically -- 2.2.7. Summing up focus properties -- 2.3. Putting it all together: f(ocus)-structure -- 2.3.1. Topic-focus interactions -- 2.3.2. Notation -- 2.3.3. Contrastive and restrictive topics and foci -- 2.3.4. Indefinite topics -- 2.3.5. Some answers -- 2.4. IS architecture -- 2.4.1. Stylistic components -- 2.4.2. & -- #931 -- -structure -- 2.4.3. IS at PF -- 2.4.4. Functional features -- 2.4.5. Lexical features -- 2.4.6. Multiply-dimensional architectures -- 2.5. Functionalism -- 2.5.1. Functionalism vs. formalism -- 2.5.2. Functionalist methodology -- 3. Configurations -- 3.1. Configurational languages -- 3.2. The left periphery -- 3.2.1. Cartography -- 3.2.2. An even finer structure of the left periphery -- 3.3. The importance of information structure -- 3.3.1. Distinguishing topicalization from left dislocation in English -- 3.3.2. Focus preposing and Yiddish movement in English -- 3.3.3. When the left-peripheral element does not have information-structural impact -- 3.3.4. Fronting non-topics -- 3.3.5. Focusing the subject: existentials -- 3.3.6. Clefts: syntactic mapping of information structure -- 3.3.7. Other strategies for marking subjects as non-topics -- 3.3.8. Left-peripheral prospects -- 3.4. Scrambling
- 3.4.1. Scrambling in Russian -- 3.4.2. Scrambling in Japanese -- 3.4.3. Dutch scrambling -- 3.4.4. Scrambling in Persian -- 3.5. Scandinavian object shift -- 3.6. Concluding remarks on word order -- 4. Information Structure Constraints -- 4.1. Identification -- 4.1.1. Argument identification, a constraint on topicalization -- 4.1.2. Identification of IS functions -- 4.2. IS constraints on syntax -- 4.2.1. I(dentificational)- dependencies -- 4.2.2. Canonical f-structures -- 4.2.3. The constraint on I-dependencies -- 4.2.4. Wh-topics -- 4.2.5. Topic-islands -- 4.2.6. That-t effects -- 4.3. Superiority -- 4.3.1. Superiority in other languages -- 4.4. IS constraints on complex NP -- 4.4.1. Extraposition from NP -- 4.4.2. Extraction from NP -- 4.5. Processing -- 4.6. Architectural consequences -- 5. Aspectual Focus -- 5.1. The theory of atoms -- 5.1.1. Aspectual focus -- 5.2. Meaning components and extraction -- 5.2.1. Manner-of-speaking verbs -- 5.2.2. Picture NPs -- 5.2.3. Datives -- 5.3. Missing objects -- 5.3.1. Missing objects in "Activities" -- 5.3.2. Object omission in habituals -- 5.4. Contextual binding of lexical constituents -- 6. The Division of Labor between Syntax and IS -- References -- Index of terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Language Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- W -- Index of authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y