The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure

by Caroline Fery (Editor), Shinichiro Ishihara (Editor)

Overview

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure. Leading researchers survey the main theories of information structure in syntax, phonology, and semantics as well as perspectives from psycholinguistics and other relevant fields. Following the editors' introduction the book is divided into four parts. The first, on theories of and theoretical perspectives on information structure, includes chapters on topic, prosody, and implicature. Part 2 covers a range of current issues in the field, including focus, quantification, and sign languages, while Part 3 is concerned with experimental approaches to information structure, including processes involved in its acquisition and comprehension. The final part contains a series of linguistic case studies drawn from a wide variety of the world's language families. This volume will be the standard guide to current work in information structure and a major point of departure for future research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198826767
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/13/2019
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	992
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 6.60(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

Caroline Fery is a Professor of Phonology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research is in phonology and theory of grammar with a special focus on intonation and prosody, as well as the interface with information structure. She is the author of articles in journals such as Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, and The Linguistic Review, and is co-editor, with Malte Zimmermann, of Information Structure: Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives (OUP, 2010).

Shinichiro Ishihara is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University, having previously held positions at Goethe University Frankfurt, the University of Stuttgart, and the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on the syntax-prosody interface and its relation to information structure in Japanese and other languages. His work has appeared in international journals such as Lingua and Syntax and in edited volumes published by OUP and Mouton de Gruyter.

Table of Contents

AbbreviationsThe Contributors1. Introduction, Caroline Fery and Shinichiro IshiharaPart I: Theories of Information Structure2. Alternative Semantics, Mats Rooth3. Givenness, Michael Rochemont4. (Contrastive) Topic, Daniel Buring5. Question-based Models of Information Structure, Leah Velleman and David Beaver6. Information Structure and the Landscape of (Non-) at-issue Meaning, Laurence R. Horn7. Information Structure and Presupposition, Kjell Johan Saebo8. Information Structure: A Cartographic Perspective, Enoch O. Aboh9. Nuclear Stress and Information Structure, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta10. Focus Projection Theories, Karlos Arregi11. Constraint Conflict and Information Structure, Vieri Samek-LodoviciPart II: Current Issues on Information Structure12. Focus Sensitive Operators, Sigrid Beck13. Quantification and Information Structure, Manfred Krifka14. Contrast: Dissecting an Elusive Information-structural Notion and its Role in Grammar, Sophie Repp15. Verum Focus, Horst Lohnstein16. Predicate Focus, Malte Zimmermann17. Information Structure and Discourse Particles, Patrick G. Grosz18. Ellipsis and Information Structure, Susanne Winkler19. Word Order and Information Structure, Ad Neeleman and Hans van de Koot20. Dislocations and Information Structure, Luis Lopez21. Discourse-configurationality, Balazs Suranyi22. On the Expression of Focus in the Metrical Grid and in the Prosodic Hierarchy, Sara Myrberg and Tomas Riad23. Focus, Intonation, and Tonal Height, Hubert Truckenbrodt24. Second Occurrence Focus, Stefan Baumann25. Information Structure and Language Change, Regine Eckardt and Augustin SpeyerPart III: Experimental Approaches to Information Structure26. Information Structure and Language Comprehension: Insights from Psycholinguistics, Elsi Kaiser27. Information Structure and Production Planning, Michael Wagner28. Information Structure in First Language Acquisition, Barbara Hohle, Frauke Berger, and Antje Sauermann29. Towards a Neurobiology of Information Structure, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Petra B. Schumacher30. Corpus Linguistics and Information Structure Research, Anke Ludeling, Julia Ritz, Manfred Stede, and Amir ZeldesPart IV: Language Studies on Information Structure31. Syntactic and Prosodic Reflexes of Information Structure in Germanic, Gisbert Fanselow32. Syntactic and Prosodic Effects of Information Structure in Romance, Cecilia Poletto and Giuliano Bocci33. Discourse Functions: The Case of Hungarian, Katalin E. Kiss34. Information Structure in Modern Greek, Stavros Skopeteas35. Information Structure in Slavic, Katja Jasinskaya36. Topic and Focus Marking in Chinese, Yiya Chen, Peppina Po-lun Lee, and Haihua Pa37. Information Structure in Japanese, Satoshi Tomioka38. Information Structure in Asia: Yongning Na (Sino-Tibetan) and Vietnamese (Austroasiatic), Alexis Michaud and Marc Brunelle39. Information Structure in Bantu, Laura Downing and Larry M. Hyman40. Information Structure in Sign Languages, Vadim Kimmelman and Roland PfauReferencesSubject IndexLanguage Index