Discourse Semantics with Information Structure
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Information Structure and Discourse Semantics
Information structure has been assumed to be an autonomous part of grammar for more than 100 years. It is represented as a partition of the sentence into two units, e.g., focus background, topic comment, focus topic, focus presupposition etc.1 Even though information structure is sometimes understood as textual or discourse structure, its organizational level is still defined with respect to th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Semantics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0167-5133,1477-4593
DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffx017