Information Structure

doi:10.1017/9781108580410.031

26 - Information Structure

from Part Five - Semantics and Pragmatics

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2022

Silvio Cruschina ,

Ion Giurgea and

Eva-Maria Remberger

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Adam Ledgeway and

Martin Maiden

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Adam Ledgeway: Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Martin Maiden: Affiliation:
University of Oxford

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This chapter deals with the analyses of the grammatical phenomena that have been related to information structure in the Romance languages, and that have played a central role in the general research on the encoding of information-structure notions in the grammar and at the interfaces. An overview is presented of this work, which has offered a great contribution to our current understanding of both empirical and theoretical issues. Highly debated questions are addressed, such as the relationship between focus and newness and between topic and givenness, the grammatical and interpretive correlates of different types of focus and topics, and the ‘aboutness’ nature of topics in contrast with subjects.

Keywords

information structure topic focus subject fronting dislocation topicalization inversion new information old information

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Information: The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics , pp. 784 - 814

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108580410.031 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2022

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