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Information Structure and Discourse in Generative Grammar
Mechanisms and Processes
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2026
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How does an utterance with a specific syntactic structure fit into the discourse context? Information Structure and Discourse in Generative Grammar presents a landmark collection of articles that reframe this central question, offering compelling insights into the theory of information structure as a bridge between sentence grammar and discourse. In investigating different focus structures, such as focus operators, wh-questions, ellipsis, anaphora and adjuncts, the contributions provide new empirical corpus-based and experimental evidence and identify novel information structural mechanisms and processes that are at work in connecting the grammatical components proper with discourse grammar and common ground.
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Andreas Konietzko and Susanne Winkler, University of Tübingen.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Exploring the interplay of information structure, discourse and common ground: Theoretical and empirical perspectives
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Focusing operators – Semantic differences and modes of interaction
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Questions Underpin Deletion: A response to Barros and Kotek (2019)
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Ambiguity of wh-questions
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In Pursuit of Condition C: (non-)coreference in grammar, discourse and processing
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Questions under discussion, salience and the acceptability of fragments
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Ellipsis and the QUD: Sluicing with nominal antecedents
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Which syntactician which kind of ellipsis: An experimental investigation of multiple sluicing
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Complex verbal adjuncts in declaratives and interrogatives: Experimental evidence
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Adverbial modification and (non-)at-issue content
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The information structure and common ground status of weil-fragments in German
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Index
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eBook published on:
February 2, 2026
eBook ISBN:
9781501514425
Hardcover published on:
February 2, 2026
Hardcover ISBN:
9781501520761
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
8
Main content:
367
Illustrations:
16
Coloured Illustrations:
6
Tables:
26
Audience(s) for this book
Researchers, Students in Generative Grammar, Syntax, Pragmatics, Semantics
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