TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gueldemann, Tom
A1  - Zerbian, Sabine
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
ED  - Liberman, M
ED  - Partee, BH
T1  - Variation in information structure with special reference to Africa
JF  - Annual review of linguistics
JF  - Annual Review of Linguistics
N2  - Information structure has been one of the central topics of recent linguistic research. This review discusses a wide range of current approaches with particular reference to African languages, as these have been playing a crucial role in advancing our knowledge about the diversity of and recurring patterns in both meaning and form of information structural notions. We focus on cross-linguistic functional frameworks, the investigation of prosody, formal syntactic theories, and relevant effects of semantic interpretation. Information structure is a thriving research domain that promises to yield important advances in our general understanding of human language.
KW  - contrast
KW  - focus
KW  - formal syntax
KW  - prosody
KW  - theticity
KW  - topic
KW  - semantics
KW  - focus sensitivity
Y1  - 2015
SN  - 978-0-8243-4201-2
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-125134
SN  - 2333-9691
VL  - 1
SP  - 155
EP  - 178
PB  - Annual Reviews
CY  - Palo Alto
ER  -