Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Degrees of Contrast and the Topic-Focus Articulation 1
5. Information Structure and Modular Grammar 15
6. Negative Descriptions of Events: Semantic and Conceptual Aspects of Sentence Negation and its Relevance for Information Structure 41
7. Two Types of Contrastive Topics? 75
8. Information Structure – Two-dimensionally Explicated 97
9. Topic Constraints in the German Middlefield 125
10. Contrastive Word Stress in Vedic Endo- and Exocentric Compounds 163
11. Towards a Scalar Notion of Information Structural Markedness 195
12. Prosody in Dialogues and Single Sentences: How Prosody can influence Speech Perception 211
13. On the Independence of Information Structural Processing from Prosody 227
14. The Prosodic Pattern of Contrastive Accent in Russian 241
15. Focus Structure and the Processing of Word Order Variations in German 259
16. International Patterns in Contrast and Concession 277
17. Prosody in Contrast 307
18. Short Portraits of the Authors 345
19. Index 349