The Notions of Information Structure

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Title page Imprint Contents Introduction 1 Aim and content of the volume 2 Definitions 2.1 Focus 2.2 Topic 2.3 New/Given 3 The ‘structure’ of information structure 4 Reflexes of information structure References Basic Notions of Information Structure 1 Introduction 2 Preliminaries 2.1 What is Information Structure? 2.2 Common Ground: Content and management 2.3 Expressions and what they stand for 3 Focus 3.1 What is Focus? 3.2 Expression focus and denotation focus 3.3 Semantic vs. pragmatic uses of focus: CG content vs. CG management 3.4 Pragmatic uses of focus 3.5 Semantic uses of focus 3.6 Comparison with alternative notions of focus 3.7 Further focus types 3.8 Representation formats for focus 4 Givenness 4.1 What is Givenness? 4.2 Anaphoric expressions 4.3 Deaccentuation, deletion and word order 5 Topics 5.1 What is Topic? 5.2 Contrastive Topics 6 Frame Setting and Delimitation 6.1 What is frame setting? 6.2 Delimitation 7 Cohesion and rhetorical structure Reference Notions of Focus Anaphoricity 1 Introduction 2 Grammatical Representation of Focus 3 Breadth of Focus 4 Scope of Focus 5 Focus Anaphoricity 6 Focus Interpretation Bibliography Topic and Focus: Two Structural Positions Associated with Logical Functions in the Left Periphery of the Hungarian Sentence 1 Introduction 2 The Topic 3 Contrastive Topic 4 Focus 5 Summary References Direct and Indirect Aboutness Topics 1 Introduction 2 Wide Scope Indefinites as Direct Aboutness Topics 2.1 The facts 2.2 The explanation 3 Indefinites as Indirect Aboutness Topics References Information Structure as Information-Based Partition 1 Introduction 2 Structure vs. Partition 3 Embedded Topics in Japanese 4 Summary References Focus Presuppositions 1 Introduction 2 Compositional Tests for Presupposition 3 Common Ground Pragmatics for Presupposition 4 Another Analysis of the Conditional Presupposition References Contrastive Focus, Givenness and the Unmarked Status of “Discourse-New” 1 Introduction 2 The Nature of Contrastive Focus Prosody 3 Distinguishing Contrastive Focus, Discourse-New and Discourse-Given 4 G-Marking as Part of a Solution to the Problem of Second Occurrence Focus 5 Summary Reference Contrastive Focus 1 Introduction 2 Four Observations 3 Towards a Formalization: Steedman (2006) on Intonational Meaning 4 Extending the Analysis: Semantic Effects of Contrastive Focus Marking 4.1 Contrastive focus marking: Typical patterns 4.2 Contrastive focus marking: Atypical patterns 5 Typological Implications: Intonation and Tone Languages 6 Conclusion References Information Structural Notions and the Fallacy of Invariant Correlates 1 Introduction 2 Definitions 2.1 All-new 2.2 Eventive 2.3 Given 2.4 Narrow focus 2.5 Parallel focus 2.6 Association with focus 2.7 Verum focus 2.8 Aboutness topic 2.9 Frame-setting topic 2.10 Familiarity topic 3 Focus and Topics as Positions in the Sentence 4 Bearers of Special Accents 5 Bearers of Accents 6 Deaccenting 7 Obligatory Phrasing 8 Morphological Markers 9 Conclusion References Notions and Subnotions in Information Structure 1 Introduction 2 Size of the Focus Constituent 3 Expressing Meanings of Focus 3.1 Morphosyntax 3.1.1 Position in syntactic structure 3.1.2 Particles 3.2 Morphology 3.3 Phonology 3.4 Further focus meanings 4 Conclusion References The Restricted Access of Information Structure to Syntax – A Minority Report 1 Introductory Remarks 2 Triggering vs. Exploitation 3 The Nature of Exploitation 4 Can and Should We Go Beyond the Licensing of Exploitation? 5 Conclusions References Focus and Tone 1 Introduction 2 General Properties of Tone 3 Focus and Prosody in Intonation Languages 4 Focus and Prosody in Tone Languages 4.1 F0-expansion 4.2 Prosodic phrasing 5 Conclusion References