Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction. When data challenges theory 1
4. Part I. Theoretical studies
5. Distinguishing psychological Given/New from linguistic Topic/Focus makes things clearer 39
6. Remarks on information structure marking asymmetries 57
7. Alternatives to information structure 91
8. Part II. Case studies
9. How alternatives are created 115
10. Is focus a root phenomenon? 147
11. The curious case of the rare focus movement in French 183
12. To be or not to be focus adverbials? 203
13. Unmarked use of marked syntactic structures 239
14. Translation as a source of pragmatic interference? 271
15. Index 305