Information Structure: Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives

by Malte Zimmermann and Caroline Féry

In this book leading scholars provide state-of-the-art overviews of approaches to the formal expression of information structure in natural language and its interaction with general principles of human cognition and communication. They present critical accounts of current understanding of how aspects of grammar, such as prosody, syntax, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics, interact in the packing and unpacking of information in communication. They...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199570957
• ISBN13: 9780199570959
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"