Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Theoretical Approaches to IS
5. 1. Detachment Linguistics and Information Grammar of Oral Languages 7
6. 2. Reference and Cognitive Status: Scalar Inference and Typology 33
7. 3. Saliency in discourse and sentence form: Zero anaphora and topicalization in Japanese 55
8. 4. An Overview of Information Structure in three Amazonian Languages 77
9. II. IS and Spoken language
10. 5. Micro-variation in information structure: There sentences in Italo-Romance 95
11. 6. How does adjacency arise? Grammatical conditions on focus-verb adjacency in Basque 121
12. 7. Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations 149
13. 8. Tag questions and focus markers: Evidence from the Tompo dialect of Even 167
14. 9. Syntactic and Prosodic Marking of Contrastiveness in Spoken Chinese 191
15. 10. Demonstratives and Information Structure in Spoken Estonian 211
16. III. IS and Discourse Particles
17. 11. Word order and focus particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages 239
18. 12. The discourse particle to and word ordering in Hindi: From grammar to discourse 263
19. IV. IS and Language Contacts
20. 13. Discourse Regulating Strategies in Pidgin Madam 285
21. 14. New Information Structuring Processes and Morphosyntactic Change 305
22. Name index 327
23. Language index 332