Information structure and information theory

This volume results from the workshop "Discourse obligates ¿ How and why discourse limits the way we express what we express" at the 44th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society in Tübingen, Germany. The workshop brought - and this book brings - together information-structural and information-theoretic perspectives on optional variation between linguistic encodings. Previously, linguistic phenomena like linearization, the choice between syntactic constructions or the distribution of ellipsis have been investigated from an information-structural or information-theoretic perspective, but the relationship between these approaches remains underexplored. The goal of this book is to look more in detail into how information structure and information theory contribute to explaining linguistic variation, to what extent they explain different encoding choices and whether they interact in doing so. Using experimental and corpus-based methods, the contributions investigate this on different languages, historical stages and levels of linguistic analysis.

Info autore

Ingo Reich is Full Professor for German Linguistics at Saarland University. His current research focuses on the grammar and use of complex sentences, ellipsis and Easy-to-Read German.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Robin Lemke (Editore), Lisa Schäfer (Editore), Ingo Reich (Editore)
• Editore: Language Science Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 19.09.2024
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature
• EAN: 9783985541102
• ISBN: 978-3-98554-110-2
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 17.5 x 24.6 x 2.1 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 657 g
• Serie: Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface 10