[Lingtyp] Typology of information perspective

[David Beck]

Hi, Juergen

I heartily recommend a recent article in IJAL

Levy, Paulette, & Teodoro Juárez Esteban. 2024. Orden de constituyentes determinado por la estructura comunicativa de la cláusula: el totonaco de Tuxtla. International Journal of American Linguistics 90(3), 327–368.

Unfortunately, it is Spanish, but the contents could be converted into a class-sized lecture very easily.

Cheers,

David

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> 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
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> 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.
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> Fiedler, I. & A. Schwarz (eds.). (2010). The expression of information structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa. Amsterdam etc.: Benjamins.
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> Kalinowski, C. (2015). A typology of morphosyntactic encoding of focus in African languages. Doctoral dissertation, University at Buffalo.
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> ?. Kiss, K. (ed.). (1995). Discourse configurational languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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> ?. Kiss, K. (1998). Identificational focus versus informational focus. Language 74: 245-73.
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> Krifka, M. & R. Musan (eds.). (2012). The expression of information structure. Berlin etc.: De Gruyter Mouton.
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> Lambrecht, K. (1994). Information structure and sentence form. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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> Lambrecht, K. (2000). When subjects behave like objects: a markedness analysis of sentence focus constructions across languages. Studies in Language 24:611-82.
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> Zimmermann, M. & C. F?ry (eds.) (2010). Information structure: Theoretical, typological, and experimental perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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David Beck, Professor and Chair
Department of Linguistics
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB  T6G 2E7
Canada

Phone: (780) 492-0807
FAX: (780) 492-0806

http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbeck/
http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/totonaco/

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