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Zusatztext ...well written and a number of complex ideas are nicely distilled along the way... Informationen zum Autor Nomi Erteschik-Shir is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her publications include The Dynamics of Focus Structure (1997) and The Syntax of Aspect (2005) co-edited with Tova Rapoport. She is currently working on a book with Tova Rapoport on the lexicon-syntax interface, The Atoms of Meaning. Klappentext This introduction to information structure discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface. It examines whether information structure maps onto syntax! and if so how. The topics covered include definitions of topic and focus! architectures of grammar! information structure! word order! the lexicon and information structure interface! and cognitive aspects of information structure. This book will appeal to graduate students of syntaxand semantics in departments of linguistics! philosophy! and cognitive science. Zusammenfassung Provides an introduction to information structure and discusses a range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface. This book examines whether information structure maps onto syntax, and if so how. It covers such topics as architectures of grammar, word order, the lexicon and information structure interface, and cognitive aspects.
