Information Structure The Syntax-Discourse Interface [Paperback]

This introduction to information structure discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface. It examines whether information structure maps onto syntax, and if so how. The topics covered include definitions of topic and focus, architectures of grammar, information structure, word order, the lexicon and information structure interface, and cognitive aspects of information structure. This book will appeal to graduate students of syntax and semantics in departments of linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science.

1. Introduction
2. Architectues and Information Structure Inventory
3. Configurations
4. Information Structure Constraints
5. Aspectual Focus
6. The Division of Labour Between Syntax and IS
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This is a book with many provocative ideas and proposals worth pursuing. --Language

Nomi Erteschik-Shir is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her publications includeThe Dynamics of Focus Structure(1997) andThe Syntax of Aspect(2005) co-edited with Tova Rapoport. She is currently working on a book with Tova Rapoport on the lexicon-syntax interface,The Atoms of Meaning.