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Information Structure and Sentence Form : Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Information Structure and Sentence Form Topic Focus and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Author: Knud Lambrecht
Why do languages have so many different ways of expressing the same idea? Lambrecht addresses this question through an investigation of the "information structure" of sentences. His analysis is based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects a speaker's assumptions about the hearer's state of knowledge and consciousness at the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521380560
ISBN-10: 0521380561
Publication Date: 9/30/1994
Pages: 404
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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