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Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Lambrecht, Knud (University of Texas, Austin)
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Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Lambrecht, Knud (University of Texas, Austin)
Why do languages have so many different ways of expressing the same idea? Professor Lambrecht addresses this question through an investigation of the 'information structure' of sentences. His analysis is based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects a speaker's assumptions about the hearer's state of knowledge and consciousness at the time of the utterance.
408 pages, 2 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | November 13, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521587044 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 408 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 228 × 25 mm · 638 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Austin, P. |
| Series Editor | Bresnan, J. |
| Series Editor | Comrie, B. |
| Series Editor | Crain, S. |
| Series Editor | Dressler, W. |
| Series Editor | Ewen, C. J. |
| Series Editor | Lass, R. |
| Series Editor | Lightfoot, D. |
| Series Editor | Rice, K. |
