TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gussenhoven, Carlos
T1  - Notions and subnotions in information structure
N2  - Three dimensions can be distinguished in a cross-linguistic account of information structure. First, there is the definition of the focus constituent, the part of the linguistic expression which is subject to some focus meaning. Second and third, there are the focus meanings and the array of structural devices that encode them. In a given language, the expression of focus is facilitated as well as constrained by the grammar within which the focus devices operate. The prevalence of focus ambiguity, the structural inability to make focus distinctions, will thus vary across languages, and within a language, across focus meanings.
KW  - corrective focus
KW  - contrastive focus
KW  - informational focus
KW  - focus ambiguity
KW  - focus type
KW  - focus meaning
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19704
ER  -