Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations Across Languages 1
5. Part I Information structure and grammar: Generalizations across languages
6. Phases and the typology of focus constructions 33
7. 1.1 Topics and topicalization across languages
8. The prosody of topicalization 69
9. Types of topics in German and Italian 87
10. The Korean particle nun, the English fall-rise accent, and thetic/categorical judgements 117
11. Topicalization in Malagasy, Tagalog and Tsou 129
12. On the discourse configurationality of West Germanic 155
13. Topic, focus and default vs. contrastive accent 183
14. 1.2 Focus and focus movement across languages
15. Identifying inferences in focus 207
16. Focus structure and the interpretation of multiple questions 229
17. Focus structure, movement to spec-Foc and syntactic processing 255
18. Focus and marked positions for VP adverbs 275
19. Ellipsis and inversion 301
20. Subject/object-asymmetry in Northern Sotho 323
21. Wide focus interpretation with fronted focus exponents in Czech 347
22. In place — out of place? Focus strategies in Hausa 365
23. Part II Information structure and pragmatics: Clause structure and context
24. Instructions for interpretation as separate performatives 407
25. Interrogative complement clauses 427
26. The syntax and pragmatics of embedded yes/no questions 447
27. Toward a uniform analysis of short answers and gapping 467
28. Alternative Semantics for definite NPs 485
29. The information structure of bare plurals in English and Italian 509
30. References 523
31. Name index 559
32. Subject index 563