Information structure, or the way the information in a sentence is 'divided' into categories such as topic, focus, comment, background, and old versus new infor

A cross-linguistic study of how objects are affected by information structure.

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

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 addresses how core notions of information structure (topic, focus and contrast) are expressed in syntax. The authors propose that the syntactic effect