On the Role of Contrast in Information Structure / / ed. by Jorina Brysbaert, Karen Lahousse.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton eBook Package 2024
• MitwirkendeR: Benz, Anton,; Bhalla, Ojaswee,; Brunetti, Lisa,; Brysbaert, Jorina,; Cimmino, Doriana,; Dwyer, Karen,; Fliessbach, Jan,; Hesse, Christoph,; Klabunde, Ralf,; Lahousse, Karen,; Lombart, Clara,; Samek-Lodovici, Vieri,; Zieleke, Regina,
• HerausgeberIn: Brysbaert, Jorina,; Lahousse, Karen,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 382
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 264 p.)

In research on Information Structure, there is an ongoing discussion about the role of contrast.While most linguists consider contrast to be compatible with both focus and topic, some argue that it is an autonomous IS category. Contrast has been shown to be encoded by different linguistic means, suc...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 1 The complex nature of contrast
• Part I: Contrast versus topic and focus
• 2 Experimental testing of focus fronting in British English
• 3 Contrast and left dislocations: Contrastive discourse relations beyond contrastive topics
• 4 Contrast and topics: An enquiry into Hindi particle -to
• Part II: Different types of contrast
• 5 Mirativity, obviousness, and reversal as instances of contrast on different levels of meaning: Evidence from Spanish intonation
• 6 Contrast via information structure: On topic development with German aber in post-initial position
• 7 Definition of contrast in spoken and signed data: An overview
• Part III: Analyzing contrast using the Question Under Discussion model
• 8 Contrast in a QUD-based informationstructure model
• 9 Contrast, concession, and QUD-trees
• Subject index