Information Structure and Discourse in Generative Grammar: Mechanisms and Processes

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· Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] Book 146 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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How does an utterance with a specific syntactic structure fit into the discourse context? Information Structure and Discourse in Generative Grammar presents a landmark collection of articles that reframe this central question, offering compelling insights into the theory of information structure as a bridge between sentence grammar and discourse. In investigating different focus structures, such as focus operators, wh-questions, ellipsis, anaphora and adjuncts, the contributions provide new empirical corpus-based and experimental evidence and identify novel information structural mechanisms and processes that are at work in connecting the grammatical components proper with discourse grammar and common ground.
How does an utterance with a specific syntactic structure fit into the discourse context? Information Structure and Discourse in Generative Grammar presents a landmark collection of articles that reframe this central question, offering compelling insights into the theory of information structure ...

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Andreas Konietzko and Susanne Winkler, University of Tübingen.
Andreas Konietzko and Susanne Winkler, University of Tübingen.

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