TY  - BOOK
ED  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
ED  - Petrova, Svetlana
ED  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI 2)
N2  - This volume contains the proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI2), held at University of Potsdam on March 18, 2005. WPSI 2 was aimed to discuss issues on the interaction of prosody, syntax, and information structure, from interdisciplinary points of view. The contributors (Haruo Kubozono, Shinichiro Ishihara, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, and Satoshi Tomioka) have been recently working on relevant issues, especially looking at the phenomena related to the intonation of focus and (wh-)questions in Japanese.
T3  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 - 9 
KW  - syntax
KW  - prosody
KW  - information structure
KW  - interface
KW  - Japanese
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22234
SN  - 1866-4725
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Selkirk, Elisabeth
T1  - Contrastive focus, givenness and the unmarked status of “Discourse-New”
N2  - New evidence is provided for a grammatical principle that singles out contrastive focus (Rooth 1996; Truckenbrodt 1995) and distinguishes it from discourse-new “informational” focus. Since the prosody of discourse-given constituents may also be distinguished from discourse-new, a three-way distinction in representation is motivated. It is assumed that an F-feature marks just contrastive focus (Jackendoff 1972, Rooth 1992), and that a G-feature marks discoursegiven constituents (Féry and Samek-Lodovici 2006), while discoursenew is unmarked. A crucial argument for G-marking comes from second occurrence focus (SOF) prosody, which arguably derives from a syntactic representation where SOF is both F-marked and G-marked. This analysis relies on a new G-Marking Condition specifying that a contrastive focus may be G-marked only if the focus semantic value of its scope is discourse-given, i.e. only if the contrast itself is given.
KW  - contrastive focus
KW  - givenness
KW  - second occurrence focus
KW  - F-marking
KW  - G-marking
KW  - prosody
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19670
ER  -