Information structure : theoretical, typological, and experimental perspectives

Introduction PART I TOPIC AND FOCUS 2. Second Occurrence Focus and Relativized Stress F 3. How Focus and Givenness Shape Prosody 4. Structural Focus and Exhaustivity 5. The Interpretation of Topical Indefinites as Direct and Indirect Aboutness Topics 6. Contrastive Topics Operate on Speech Acts 7. Biased Questions, Intonation, and Discourse PART II CROSS-LINGUISTIC VARIATION AND DIACHRONIC CHANGE 8. Towards a Typology of Focus Realization 9. Focus in Aghem 10. Subject Focus in West African Languaegs 11. Information Structure and OV Order 12. Information Structure and Unmarked Word Order in (Older) Germanic PART III EXPERIMENTAL AND PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO INFORMATION STRUCTURE 13. Effects of Givenness and Constraints on Free Word order 14. Investigating Effects on Structural and Information-Structural Factors on Pronoun Resolution 15. Given and New Information in Spatial Statements