Experiments in Focus - Information Structure and Semantic Processing

This volume presents new and cutting-edge research on the question of how we parse, interpret and understand language in more complex discourse settings. The challenge is to find empirical evidence on how information structure and semantic processing are related. Comprehensible answers are provided by showing how syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics interact and how they influence semantic processing and interpretation. The analysis of core information structural concepts that contribute to processing such as focus and contrast, the specific discourse status of referents that add to the common ground, context dependency and markedness as well as prosodic prominence and givenness marking has added new and convincing evidence to the research of information structure and semantic processing.

About the author

Sam Featherston, Robin Hörnig, Sophie von Wietersheim and Susanne Winkler, University of Tübingen, Germany.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sam Featherston (Editor), Robi Hörnig (Editor), Robin Hörnig (Editor), Sophie von Wietersheim et al (Editor), Sophie von Wietersheim (Editor), Susanne Winkler (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2021
• EAN: 9783110765984
• ISBN: 978-3-11-076598-4
• No. of pages: 331
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 24 mm x 228 mm
• Weight: 532 g
• Illustrations: 47 b/w ill., 23 b/w tbl.
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics