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THE EXPRESSION OF INFORMATION STRUCTURE GEBUNDEN

Information structure deals with the linguistic forms and techniques that support the
integration of what is said into the current informational and attentional state of the
addressee. This shows in categories like topic-comment structuring  focus to highlight
expressions  marking of givenness and of presupposed information  and ways to indicate that the
information provided is restricted. The book relates infor-mation structure to theoretical
models of grammar  to computation and modelling and brings together what is known about the
expression of information structure in human language with regard to its empirical
investigation  its psycholinguistic aspects and the acquisition of information structure. Since
the need to integrate what is said into the informational and attentional state of the
addressee is central to all human communication  it is not surprising that all natural
languages have developed devices to express information structural cate-gories. Toillustrate
this  the book also provides concrete and theory independent 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  it also
provides information for linguists that are not specialists in the field.

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