Variation in information structure with special reference to Africa
- 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.
| Author details: | Tom Gueldemann, Sabine Zerbian, Malte ZimmermannORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-125134 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8243-4201-2 |
| ISSN: | 2333-9691 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Annual review of linguistics |
| Title of parent work (English): | Annual Review of Linguistics |
| Publisher: | Annual Reviews |
| Place of publishing: | Palo Alto |
| Editor(s): | M Liberman, BH Partee |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2015 |
| Publication year: | 2015 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
| Tag: | contrast; focus; focus sensitivity; formal syntax; prosody; semantics; theticity; topic |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Number of pages: | 24 |
| First page: | 155 |
| Last Page: | 178 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
