Information structure : overview and linguistic issues / Manfred Krifka and Renate Musan -- The information structure of Chinese / Daniel Hole -- The information structure of English / Susanne Winkler -- The information structure of French / Wolfgang Klein -- The information structure of Georgian / Rusudan Asatiani and Stavros Skopeteas -- The information structure of Hungarian / Beáta Gyuris -- The information structure of Japanese / Reiko Vermeulen -- The empirical investigation of information structure / Stavros Skopeteas -- The prosodic investigation of information structure / Aoju Chen -- The psychology of information structure / Heidi Wind Cowles -- The acquisition of information structure / Christine Dimroth and Bhuvana Narasimhan -- Computation and modeling of information structure / Manfred Stede -- Information structure and theoretical models of grammar / Ingo Reich
Summary
"The book reports on the present state of the theoretical presentation, empirical investigation, psycholinguistic aspects and acquisition of information structure, and computation. It also provides descriptions of the information structural encoding strategies of individual languages of different types. The book can be used as a textbook appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses"--Provided by publisher
