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Information structure: Notional distinctions, ways of expression
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Abstract. Information Structure, the packaging of information to satisfy the immediate communicative needs, exerts a powerful force on all structural levels of language. We show how this concept can be defined, we argue for focus, givenness, topic, frame setting and delimitation as important subconcepts, and we illustrate the wide variety in which these information structural functions are expressed in languages.
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- Authors
- Féry, C., & Krifka, M.
- Venue
- Unity and Diversity of Languages
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Published
- 2008-07-03
- Pages
- 123-135
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- W2492823658
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- 255
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- 9.99
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
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