[Lingtyp] Typology of information perspective

[Juergen Bohnemeyer]

Dear all – This fall, Christian Di Canio and I are co-teaching a seminar on information perspective, with foci (groan!) on typology, phonetics, and Mesoamerican languages. I’d like to ask for your help in identifying relevant typological literature. I’m listing below some works we already have in our sights. Thanks! – Juergen

Aboh, E., K. Hartmann, & M. Zimmermann (eds.). (2007). Focus Strategies in African Languages: The interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic. Berlin etc.: Mouton de Gruyter.

Fiedler, I. & A. Schwarz (eds.). (2010). The expression of information structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa. Amsterdam etc.: Benjamins.

Kalinowski, C. (2015). A typology of morphosyntactic encoding of focus in African languages. Doctoral dissertation, University at Buffalo.

É. Kiss, K. (ed.). (1995). Discourse configurational languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

É. Kiss, K. (1998). Identificational focus versus informational focus. Language 74: 245-73.

Krifka, M. & R. Musan (eds.). (2012). The expression of information structure. Berlin etc.: De Gruyter Mouton.

Lambrecht, K. (1994). Information structure and sentence form. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lambrecht, K. (2000). When subjects behave like objects: a markedness analysis of sentence focus constructions across languages. Studies in Language 24:611-82.

Zimmermann, M. & C. Féry (eds.) (2010). Information structure: Theoretical, typological, and experimental perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


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