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Oxford Handbook of Information Structure, Paperback by Fery, Caroline (EDT); Ishihara, Shinichiro (EDT), ISBN 0198826761, ISBN-13 9780198826767, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure. Leading researchers survey the main theories of information structure in syntax, phonology, and semantics as well as perspectives from<br>psycholinguistics and other relevant fields. Following the editors' introduction th is divided into four parts. The first, on theories of and theoretical perspectives on information structure, includes chapters on topic, prosody, and implicature. Part 2 covers a range of current issues in the<br>field, including focus, quantification, and sign languages, while Part 3 is concerned with experimental approaches to information structure, including processes involved in its acquisition and comprehension. The final part contains a series of linguistic case studies drawn from a wide variety of the<br>world's language families. This volume will be the standard guide to current work in information structure and a major point of departure for future research.<br>
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