Information Structure Theoretical and Empirical Aspects

The first volume of the series Language, Context, and Cognition is devoted to the subjects "information structure" and "contrast." The working hypothesis of this part of the project is that, apart from the use of lexical indication, the expression of contrast vs. correction is primarily carried by the intonation contour as a means for indicating scope and focus in negating constructions. The papers in this volume proceed from the premise that the information structure is preformed conceptually, and that articulation in the dynamic context is then portioned and linearized, mapped onto the syntactic representation via the semantic representation, and finally realized intonationally. The findings are partly based on neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic experiments.Steube, Anita is the author of 'Information Structure Theoretical and Empirical Aspects', published 2004 under ISBN 9783110179347 and ISBN 3110179342.