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The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure ca
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Information structure is a relatively new field to linguistics and has only recently been studied for smaller and less described languages. This book is the fir
Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages
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Information structure is a relatively new field to linguistics and has only recently been studied for smaller and less described languages. This book is the fir
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This volume presents new findings based on the analysis of spoken corpora in thirteen different Afro-Asiatic languages – a unique endeavor in the domain of le
On the Role of Contrast in Information Structure
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In research on Information Structure, there is an ongoing discussion about the role of contrast. While most linguists consider contrast to be compatible with bo