Universals of information structure

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Section 1. Interfaces of information structure
6. Topic accent and prosodic structure 15
7. The prosodic annotation of C-ORAL-ROM and the structure of information in spoken language 51
8. Universals of information structure 75
9. Section 2. Grammar and information structure in Italian and some of its dialects
10. Constructions with preposed infinitive: Typological and pragmatic notes 105
11. Negation and «Focus Clash» in Sardinian 129
12. Do-support in a Sicilian variety, an Italian pseudo-cleft, and the packaging of information 153
13. Clitics and anaphoric relations in informational patterning: A corpus-driven research on spontaneous spoken Italian (C-ORAL-ROM) 169
14. The informational structure and the scope of lexical modality in spoken Italian (C-ORAL-ROM) 203
15. Section 3. Diachronic aspects in Italian
16. On two functions of verb-subject order in Old Italian 229
17. Between thematicity and grammaticalisation: The diachronic rearrangement of information structure and the position of clitic pronouns in Italian 269
18. Section 4. Pragmatically oriented languages
19. Information structure in Slavic languages 307
20. Position, function and interpretation of topics in Somali 325
21. Section 5. Some more aspects of information structure
22. Acquiring the grammar of topicality in L2 Italian: A comparative approach 351
23. Appendix” or “postposed Topic”: Where does the difference lie? 387
24. Backmatter 413