TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tomioka, Satoshi
T1  - Information Structure as information-based partition
N2  - While the Information Structure (IS) is most naturally interpreted as 'structure of information', some may argue that it is structure of something else, and others may object to the use of the word 'structure'. This paper focuses on the question of whether the informational component can have structural properties such that it can be called 'structure'. The preliminary conclusion is that, although there are some vague indications of structurehood in it, it is perhaps better understood to be a representation that encodes a finite set of information-based partitions, rather than structure.
KW  - Partition
KW  - Topic
KW  - Recursivity
KW  - Second Occurrence Focus
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19657
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tomioka, Satoshi
ED  - Ishihara, Shinichiro
ED  - Petrova, Svetlana
ED  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - Intervention effects in focus
BT  - from a Japanese point of view
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - The most recent trend in the studies of LF intervention effects makes crucial reference to focusing effects on the interveners, and this paper critically examines the representative analyses of the focus-based approach. While each analysis has its own merits and shortcomings, I argue that a pragmatic analysis that does not make appeal to syntactic configurations is better equipped to deal with many of the complex and delicate facts surrounding intervention effects.
KW  - Intervention Effect
KW  - Alternative Semantics
KW  - Whinterrogatives
KW  - Focus
KW  - Topic
KW  - Post-Focus Reduction
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24502
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
VL  - 9
SP  - 97
EP  - 118
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -