In:On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations across languages
Edited by Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 100] 2007
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Published online: 8 March 2007
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.100.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsix
On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations Across Languages
Part I Information structure and grammar: Generalizations across languages31
Phases and the typology of focus constructions
1.1 Topics and topicalization across languages67
The prosody of topicalization
Types of topics in German and Italian
The Korean particle nun, the English fall-rise accent, and thetic/categorical judgements
Topicalization in Malagasy, Tagalog and Tsou
On the discourse configurationality of West Germanic
Topic, focus and default vs. contrastive accent: typological differences with respect to discourse prominence
1.2 Focus and focus movement across languages205
Identifying inferences in focus
Focus structure and the interpretation of multiple questions
Focus structure, movement to spec-Foc and syntactic processing
Focus and marked positions for VP adverbs
Ellipsis and inversion: A feature-based focus account
Subject/object-asymmetry in Northern Sotho
Wide focus interpretation with fronted focus exponents in Czech
In place — out of place? Focus strategies in Hausa
Part II Information structure and pragmatics: Clause structure and context405
Instructions for interpretation as separate performatives
Interrogative complement clauses
The syntax and pragmatics of embedded yes/no questions
Toward a uniform analysis of short answers and gapping
Alternative Semantics for definite NPs
The information structure of bare plurals in English and Italian
References
Name index
Subject index
