[Lingtyp] Typology of information perspective

Sun Jul 13 03:41:44 UTC 2025

Dear all – Please find the updated bibliography on the typology of information structure below. Many thanks to Peter Arkadiev, David Beck, Don Daniels, Artem Fedorinchyk, Riccardo Giomi, Nikolaus Himmelmann, Aritz Irurtzun, Izabela Jordanoska, Naomi Peck, and Adam Singerman! – Cheers – 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.

Aissen, J. (2023). Documenting topic and focus. In P. Jenks & L. Michael (eds.), Key topics in language documentation and description. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication no. 26.  Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 11-57. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/fcecab9a-67b4-4d8e-bee0-406580fae5d3

Assmann, M., D. Büring, I. Jordanoska, I., & M. Prüller. (2023). Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 41(4): 1349-1396.

Becker, L. & G. Schneider-Blum. (2020). Morphological marking of contrast in Tima. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1): 125. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1098.

Bueno Holle, J. J. (2019). Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and conversation. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2538324.

Daniels, D. (In press). Information structure in Papuan languages. In N. Evans & S. Fadden (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Papuan languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Page numbers???

Dooley, R. A. (2017). Information structure: An introduction. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2017-002. https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/31/45/94/31459406972720258863258711312406869051/SILEWP2017_002.pdf

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

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

Féry, C. & S. Ishihara (eds.). (2014). The Oxford handbook of information structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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

Irurtzun, A. (2024). The syntactic nature of focus. In Ángel J. Gallego & Dennis Ott (eds.), Cartography and explanatory adequacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198867937.003.0007.

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

Klumpp, G. & E. Skribnik. (2021). Information structuring. In M. Bakró-Nagy, J. Laakso, & E. Skribnik (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Uralic languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2021). 1018-1036.

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.

Levy, P. & T. 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.

Malcher, K. (2023). Clefts: A cross-linguistic investigation. Doctoral dissertation, Cologne University. https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/71050/1/Malcher_Clefts_A_cross-linguistic_investigation.pdf.

Matić, D. & D. Wedgwood. (2013). The meanings of focus: The significance of an interpretation-based category in cross-linguistic analysis. Journal of Linguistics 49: 127–163.

Ozerov, P. (2015). Information structure without topic and focus: Differential object marking in Burmese. Studies in Language 39(2): 86–423.

Ozerov, Pavel. 2018. Tracing the sources of Information Structure: Towards the study of interactional management of information. Journal of Pragmatics, 138, pp. 77–97.

Ozerov, Pavel. 2021. Multifactorial information management (MIM): summing up the emerging alterna-tive to Information Structure. Linguistics Vanguard, 7.

Smit, N. (2010). FYI: Theory and typology of information packaging. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Amsterdam.

van Gijn, R., J. Hammond, D. Matić, S. van Putten, & A. V. Galucio (eds.). (2014). Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences. Amsterdam etc.: Benjamins.

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

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From: Juergen Bohnemeyer <jb77 at buffalo.edu>
Date: Monday, July 7, 2025 at 14:50
To: LINGTYP LINGTYP <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Typology of information perspective
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