The volume presents new approaches to explaining word order variation and change in the Germanic languages and thus relates to one of the most prominent and wid

Information structure deals with the linguistic forms and techniques that support the integration of what is said into the current informational and attentional

Information structure is a relatively new field to linguistics and has only recently been studied for smaller and less described languages. This book is the fir

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure. Leading researche

The unifying topic of this volume is the role of information structure, broadly conceived, as it interacts with the other levels of linguistic description, synt