TY  - CHAP
A1  - Karvovskaya, Lena
T1  - ‘Also’ in Ishkashimi : additive particle and sentence connector
N2  - The paper discusses the distribution and meaning of the additive particle -m@s in Ishkashimi. -m@s receives different semantic associations while staying in the same syntactic position. Thus, structurally combined with an object, it can semantically associate with the focused object or with the whole focused VP; similarly, combined with the subject it can semantically associate with the focused subject and with the whole focused sentence.
KW  - Ishkashimi
KW  - focus
KW  - additive particle
KW  - bracketing paradox
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-66097
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Röhr, Christine Tanja
T1  - Information status and prosody : production and perception in German0F*
N2  - In a production experiment and two follow-up perception experiments on read German we investigated the (de-)coding of discourse-new, inferentially and textually accessible and given discourse referents by prosodic means. Results reveal that a decrease in the referent’s level of givenness is reflected by an increase in its prosodic prominence (expressed by differences in the status and type of accent used) providing evidence for the relevance of different intermediate types of information status between the poles given and new. Furthermore, perception data indicate that the degree of prosodic prominence can serve as the decisive cue for decoding a referent’s level of givenness.
KW  - prosody
KW  - information status
KW  - discourse referent
KW  - degree of givenness
KW  - cognitive activation
KW  - prominence
KW  - pitch accent
KW  - perception
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-66116
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Stavropoulou, Pepi
T1  - On the status of contrast : evidence from the prosodic domain
N2  - Recent models of Information Structure (IS) identify a low level contrast feature that functions within the topic and focus of the utterance. This study investigates the exact nature of this feature based on empirical evidence from a controlled read speech experiment on the prosodic realization of different levels of contrast in Modern Greek. Results indicate that only correction is truly contrastive, and that it is similarly realized in both topic and focus, suggesting that contrast is an independent IS dimension. Non default focus position is further identified as a parameter that triggers a prosodically marked rendition, similar to correction.
KW  - Information Structure
KW  - Prosody
KW  - Contrast
KW  - Correction
KW  - Markedness
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-66066
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - QUIS data from Buli, Kɔnni and Baatɔnum with notes on the comparative approach
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Selection of QUIS Data for Comparative Goals 2.1 Fairy Tale (Topic and Focus in Coherent Discourse) 2.2 Focus Translation Extract 3. On the Presentation and Comparison of the Data 4. Buli 4.1 Tomatoes Fairy Tale in Buli 4.2 Focus Translation Extract in Buli 5. Kɔnni 5.1 Tomatoes Fairy Tale in Kɔnni 5.2 Focus Translation Extract 6. Baatɔnum 6.1 Tomatoes Fairy Tale in Baatɔnum 6.2 Focus Translation Extract in Baatɔnum
Y1  - 2011
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51415
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 16
SP  - 1
EP  - 48
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Renans, Agata
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
A1  - Greif, Markus
T1  - Questionnaire on focus semantics. - 2nd edition
N2  - This is the 15th issue of the working paper series Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) of the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 632. This online version contains the Questionnaire on Focus Semantics contributed by Agata Renans, Malte Zimmermann and Markus Greif, members of Project D2 investigating information structural phenomena from a typological perspective. The present issue provides a tool for collecting and analyzing natural data with respect to relevant linguistic questions concerning focus types, focus sensitive particles, and the effects of quantificational adverbs and presupposition on focus semantics. This volume is a supplementation to the Reference manual of the Questionnaire on Information Structure, issued by Project D2 in ISIS 4 (2006).
T3  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 - 15, 2nd E. 
KW  - focus sensitive expressions
KW  - semantic fieldwork
KW  - methodology
Y1  - 2011
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-50359
ER  -