Notions and subnotions in information structure

  • Three dimensions can be distinguished in a cross-linguistic account of information structure. First, there is the definition of the focus constituent, the part of the linguistic expression which is subject to some focus meaning. Second and third, there are the focus meanings and the array of structural devices that encode them. In a given language, the expression of focus is facilitated as well as constrained by the grammar within which the focus devices operate. The prevalence of focus ambiguity, the structural inability to make focus distinctions, will thus vary across languages, and within a language, across focus meanings.

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Author:Carlos Gussenhoven
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112437
URL:http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis06_11gussenhoven.pdf
ISBN:978-3-939469-88-9
Parent Title (German):The notions of information structure / Caroline Féry (ed.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 6
Publisher:Univ.-Verl.
Place of publication:Potsdam
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2008/11/06
Year of first Publication:2007
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2008/11/06
Tag:contrastive focus; corrective focus; focus ambiguity; focus meaning; focus type; informational focus
Page Number:19
First Page:185
Last Page:203
Source:Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), 6, 2007, S. 185-203 ; http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis06_11gussenhoven.pdf
HeBIS-PPN:207963703
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht

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