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This collection of articles offers a new and compelling perspective on the interface connecting syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. At the core of this

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure. Leading researche

Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? Professor Lambrecht

Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from a

This volume presents original comparative and contrastive research into various aspects of information structure (topic, focus, contrastivity, givenness, anapho