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Zusatztext a significant and welcome contribution to the current intense interest in linguistic theorising of information structure and succeeds in highlighting the value of considering different approaches for theoretical linguists, psycholinguists, and typologists alike. Informationen zum Autor Malte Zimmermann and Caroline Féry are Professors of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam. Professor Zimmermann's research interests are in quantification and focus. His published work includes articles in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Natural Language Semantics. Professor Féry has published extensively in all aspects of phonology and phonological theory, including the role of prosody and intonation in information structure. She is the co-editor of Gradience in Grammar (OUP 2006). Klappentext Leading scholars present state-of-the-art overviews of approaches to information structure in natural language and its interaction with general principles of human cognition and communication. The chapters include typological and diachronic perspectives and demonstrate the value of combining theoretical and experimental approaches. Zusammenfassung Leading scholars present state-of-the-art overviews of approaches to information structure in natural language and its interaction with general principles of human cognition and communication. The chapters include typological and diachronic perspectives and demonstrate the value of combining theoretical and experimental approaches. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Malte Zimmermann and Caroline Féry: Introduction Part I Topic and Focus 2: Mats Rooth: Second Occurrence Focus and Relativized Stress F 3: Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara: How Focus and Givenness Shape Prosody 4: Katalin É Kiss: Structural Focus and Exhaustivity 5: Cornelia Endriss and Stefan Hinterwimmer: The Interpretation of Topical Indefinites as Direct and Indirect Aboutness Topics 6: Satoshi Tomioka: Contrastive Topics Operate on Speech Acts 7: Brian Reese and Nicholas Asher: Biased Questions, Intonation, and Discourse Part II Cross-linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change 8: Daniel Büring: Towards a Typology of Focus Realization 9: Larry M. Hyman and Maria Polinsky: Focus in Aghem 10: Ines Fiedler, Katharina Hartmann, Brigitte Reineke, Anne Schwarz, and Malte Zimmermann: Subject Focus in West African Languaegs 11: Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir: Information Structure and OV Order 12: Roland Hinterhölzl: Information Structure and Unmarked Word Order in (Older) Germanic Part III Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Information Structure 13: Stavros Skopeteas and Gisbert Fanselow: Effects of Givenness and Constraints on Free Word order 14: Elsi Kaiser: Investigating Effects on Structural and Information-Structural Factors on Pronoun Resolution 15: Robin Hörnig and Thomas Weskott: Given and New Information in Spatial Statements ...
