Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents

by Knud Lambrecht and Knud Lanbrecht

Book Overview

Why do languages have so many different ways of expressing the same idea? Lambrecht addresses this question through an investigation of the information structure of sentences. His analysis is based on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521380561
• ISBN13: 9780521380560
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"