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Annual Review of Linguistics

Volume 1, 2015

Variation in Information Structure with Special Reference to Africa

Abstract

Information structure has been one of the central topics of recent linguistic research. This review discusses a wide range of current approaches with particular reference to African languages, as these have been playing a crucial role in advancing our knowledge about the diversity of and recurring patterns in both meaning and form of information structural notions. We focus on cross-linguistic functional frameworks, the investigation of prosody, formal syntactic theories, and relevant effects of semantic interpretation. Information structure is a thriving research domain that promises to yield important advances in our general understanding of human language.

Keyword(s): contrast, focus, focus sensitivity, formal syntax, prosody, semantics, theticity, topic
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