Information Structure : Theoretical and Empirical Aspects.

Intro -- Introduction -- Degrees of Contrast and the Topic-Focus Articulation -- Information Structure and Modular Grammar -- Negative Descriptions of Events: Semantic and Conceptual Aspects of Sentence Negation and its Relevance for Information Structure -- Two Types of Contrastive Topics? -- Information Structure - Two-dimensionally Explicated -- Topic Constraints in the German Middlefield -- Contrastive Word Stress in Vedic Endo- and Exocentric Compounds -- Towards a Scalar Notion of Information Structural Markedness -- Prosody in Dialogues and Single Sentences: How Prosody can influence Speech Perception -- On the Independence of Information Structural Processing from Prosody -- The Prosodic Pattern of Contrastive Accent in Russian -- Focus Structure and the Processing of Word Order Variations in German -- Intonational Patterns in Contrast and Concession -- Prosody in Contrast: Prosodic Distinction of Contrast and Correction Readings of Polish Adversative Coordinate Structures -- Portraits of the Authors -- Index.

Human languages are economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of utterances only what cannot be supplied by other conceptual systems. Language, Context and Cognition explores conceptual underspecification and context-dependence in grammar and text-production as essential properties of natural languages. This requires close cooperation of linguistics with cognitive science, logic and pragmatics.

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