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Information Structure and Discourse in Generative Grammar

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The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is...
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  • 02 February 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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Price: $169.99
Pages: 375
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date: 02 February 2026
ISBN: 9781501520761
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies
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Andreas Konietzko and Susanne Winkler, University of Tübingen.