Information Structure and Sentence Form
Subtitle: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780521587044
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Syntax
First sentence: There has been and still is disagreement and confusion in linguistic theory about the nature of the component of language referred to in this book as INFORMATION STRUCTURE and about the status of this component in the overall system of grammar.