In:When Data Challenges Theory: Unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure
Edited by Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 273] 2022
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 22 February 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.273.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction: When data challenges theory. The analysis of information structure and
its paradoxes
1
Davide Garassino
Daniel Jacob
Part I.Theoretical studies
39
Distinguishing psychological Given/New from linguistic Topic/Focus
makes things clearer
39
Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
Remarks on information structure marking asymmetries: The epistemological view on the micropragmatic profile of
utterances
57
Viviana Masia
Alternatives to information structure
91
Dejan Matić
Part II.Case studies: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives
113
How alternatives are created: Specialized background knowledge affects the interpretation of
clefts in discourse
115
Malte Rosemeyer
Daniel Jacob
Lars Konieczny
Is focus a root phenomenon?
147
Karen Lahousse
The curious case of the rare focus movement in French
183
Pierre Larrivée
To be or not to be focus adverbials? A corpus-driven study of It. anche in spontaneous
spoken Italian
203
Anna-Maria De Cesare
Unmarked use of marked syntactic structures: Possessives and fronting of non-subject XPs in Bulgarian
Judeo-Spanish
239
Christoph Gabriel
Jonas Grünke
Translation as a source of pragmatic interference? An empirical investigation of French and Italian cleft
sentences
271
Davide Garassino
General index
305
