35.2910, Books: Information structure and information theory: Lemke, Schäfer, and Reich (eds.) (2024)

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Date: 17-Oct-2024
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Information structure and information theory: Lemke, Schäfer, and Reich (eds.) (2024)


Title: Information structure and information theory
Series Title: Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/465

Editor: Robin Lemke
Editor: Lisa Schäfer
Editor: Ingo Reich
eBook: ISBN: 978-3-96110-481-9 Pages: 248 Price: Europe EURO 0
Abstract:

This volume results from the workshop "Discourse obligates – How and
why discourse limits the way we express what we express" at the 44th
Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society in Tübingen, Germany.
The workshop brought - and this book brings - together
information-structural and information-theoretic perspectives on
optional variation between linguistic encodings. Previously,
linguistic phenomena like linearization, the choice between syntactic
constructions or the distribution of ellipsis have been investigated
from an information-structural or information-theoretic perspective,
but the relationship between these approaches remains underexplored.

The goal of this book is to look more in detail into how information
structure and information theory contribute to explaining linguistic
variation, to what extent they explain different encoding choices and
whether they interact in doing so. Using experimental and corpus-based
methods, the contributions investigate this on different languages,
historical stages and levels of linguistic analysis.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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