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Notions and subnotions in information structure

Gussenhoven, Carlos (2008) Notions and subnotions in information structure. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 55 (3-4). pp. 381-395. ISSN 1216-8076

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Abstract

Three dimensions can be distinguished in a cross-linguistic account of information structure. First, there is the definition of the focus constituent, the part of the linguistic expression which is subject to some focus meaning. Second and third, there are the focus meanings and the array of structural devices that encode them. In a given language, the expression of focus is facilitated as well as constrained by the grammar within which the focus devices operate. The prevalence of focus ambiguity, the structural inability to make focus distinctions, will thus vary across languages, and within a language, across focus meanings.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet
Depositing User: xFruzsina xPataki
Date Deposited: 20 Jun 2017 08:33
Last Modified: 04 Apr 2023 12:55
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/55101

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