The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure

Caroline Féry is a Professor of Phonology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research is in phonology and theory of grammar with a special focus on intonation and prosody, as well as the interface with information structure. She is the author of articles in journals such as Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, and The Linguistic Review. She was the founding director of the DFG-funded collaborative research centre SFB 632 'Information Structure' from 2003 to 2010. Shinichiro Ishihara is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University, having previously held positions at Goethe University Frankfurt, the University of Stuttgart, and the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on the syntax-prosody interface and its relation to information structure in Japanese and other languages. His work has appeared in international journals such as Lingua and Syntax and in edited volumes published by OUP and Mouton de Gruyter.

• AbbreviationsThe Contributors1: Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara: IntroductionPart I: Theories of Information Structure2: Mats Rooth: Alternative Semantics3: Michael Rochemont: Givenness4: Daniel Büring: (Contrastive) Topic5: Leah Velleman and David Beaver: Question-based Models of Information Structure6: Laurence R. Horn: Information Structure and the Landscape of (Non-) at-issue Meaning7: Kjell Johan Sæbø: Information Structure and Presupposition8: Enoch O. Aboh: Information Structure: A Cartographic Perspective9: Maria Luisa Zubizarreta: Nuclear Stress and Information Structure10: Karlos Arregi: Focus Projection Theories11: Vieri Samek-Lodovici: Constraint Conflict and Information StructurePart II: Current Issues on Information Structure12: Sigrid Beck: Focus Sensitive Operators13: Manfred Krifka: Quantification and Information Structure14: Sophie Repp: Contrast: Dissecting an Elusive Information-structural Notion and its Role in Grammar15: Horst Lohnstein: Verum Focus16: Malte Zimmermann: Predicate Focus17: Patrick G. Grosz: Information Structure and Discourse Particles18: Susanne Winkler: Ellipsis and Information Structure19: Ad Neeleman and Hans van de Koot: Word Order and Information Structure20: Luis López: Dislocations and Information Structure21: Balázs Surányi: Discourse-configurationality22: Sara Myrberg and Tomas Riad: On the Expression of Focus in the Metrical Grid and in the Prosodic Hierarchy23: Hubert Truckenbrodt: Focus, Intonation, and Tonal Height24: Stefan Baumann: Second Occurrence Focus25: Regine Eckardt and Augustin Speyer: Information Structure and Language ChangePart III: Experimental Approaches to Information Structure26: Elsi Kaiser: Information Structure and Language Comprehension: Insights from Psycholinguistics27: Michael Wagner: Information Structure and Production Planning28: Barbara Höhle, Frauke Berger, and Antje Sauermann: Information Structure in First Language Acquisition29: Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Petra B. Schumacher: Towards a Neurobiology of Information Structure30: Anke Lüdeling, Julia Ritz, Manfred Stede, and Amir Zeldes: Corpus Linguistics and Information Structure ResearchPart IV: Language Studies on Information Structure31: Gisbert Fanselow: Syntactic and Prosodic Reflexes of Information Structure in Germanic32: Cecilia Poletto and Giuliano Bocci: Syntactic and Prosodic Effects of Information Structure in Romance33: Katalin É. Kiss: Discourse Functions: The Case of Hungarian34: Stavros Skopeteas: Information Structure in Modern Greek35: Katja Jasinskaya: Information Structure in Slavic36: Yiya Chen, Peppina Po-lun Lee, and Haihua Pa: Topic and Focus Marking in Chinese37: Satoshi Tomioka: Information Structure in Japanese38: Alexis Michaud and Marc Brunelle: Information Structure in Asia: Yongning Na (Sino-Tibetan) and Vietnamese (Austroasiatic)39: Laura Downing and Larry M. Hyman: Information Structure in Bantu40: Vadim Kimmelman and Roland Pfau: Information Structure in Sign LanguagesReferencesSubject IndexLanguage Index