Information Structure and its Interfaces

✍ Scribed by Lunella Mereu (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 440
• Series: Interface Explorations [IE]; 19
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The volume presents recent results in the field of Information Structure based on research on Italian and Italian dialects, and on further studies on several typologically different languages. The central idea is that Information Structure is not an exclusive matter of syntax but an interface issue which involves the interplay of at least the phonological, morpho-syntactic and semantic-pragmatic levels of analysis. In addition, the volume is based on the study of actual language use and it adopts a cross-linguistic point of view.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Topic accent and prosodic structure
The prosodic annotation of C-ORAL-ROM and the structure of information in spoken language
Universals of information structure
Constructions with preposed infinitive: Typological and pragmatic notes
Negation and «Focus Clash» in Sardinian
Do-support in a Sicilian variety, an Italian pseudo-cleft, and the packaging of information
Clitics and anaphoric relations in informational patterning: A corpus-driven research on spontaneous spoken Italian (C-ORAL-ROM)
The informational structure and the scope of lexical modality in spoken Italian (C-ORAL-ROM)
On two functions of verb-subject order in Old Italian
Between thematicity and grammaticalisation: The diachronic rearrangement of information structure and the position of clitic pronouns in Italian
Information structure in Slavic languages
Position, function and interpretation of topics in Somali
Acquiring the grammar of topicality in L2 Italian: A comparative approach
Appendix” or “postposed Topic”: Where does the difference lie?
Backmatter