Questions tagged [information-structure]
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What does information-status mean in linguistics?
The phrase information-status is used repdeatly in the article "Definiteness and Information-status in Hindi", Baldridge, 1996, but what does it mean? Could someone explain it simply/ say ...
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Perfect Language [closed]
In linguistics, what's the definition of a perfect language?
Off the top of my hat, given the primary purpose of language is communication, a perfect language must be able to convey 100% of the ...
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How does order of prepositional phrases effect semantics?
I was discussing the semantics difference when switching prepositional objects in the following sentences with a German native:
, damit die Eltern auf ihre Kinder über CCTV aufpassen können,
damit ...
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Left Dislocated Topics that Correspond to Foci
Can a topic ever correspond to a focus?
In the sentence below, the left dislocated topic is the antecedent of the resumptive pronoun she, but she is in focus.
'Mary, SHE ate my cake!'
Context: I know ...
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Is there a human language with a continuous and differentiable morphology/phonology?
This might be a strangely framed question for a liguist, since I'm a physicist and know very little about this field.
My question relates to how changing a symbol (for example a letter) in a word ...
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What are the pros and cons of having adjectives appear first?
In the English, we say:
Red apple
Red is an adjective. apple is a noun. Red tells us that, well, the apple is red.
In other languages, such as Arabic, it is the other way around. I.e.:
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Sentence to AST structures?
How can we distinguish the meaning from POS,words,form..or any other information.. f.e.
the cube is **in** the box
the sign splits a rule **in** two parts
in the first case the meaning is ...
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Words being marked for agreement, and prepared speech
In some languages, words are marked for more things than in others.
This affects what information must be included in a sentence or passage. For example, someone saying "Do you want to come along ...
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What is the most efficient way to compress "words"? [closed]
There are many ways a word can be expressed, or things a word is:
With textual characters and a dictionary spelling,
With phonetic symbols and a phonetic spelling
With sound, a recording of the word ...
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Are there instances in which an entire sentence constitutes a focus--new information?
Are there instances in which an entire sentence constitutes a focus--new information? Consider the following scenario:
Three people are talking together about a mutual friend who is in the ...
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How do dependency grammars account for information structure
In phrase structure grammars, discourse functions (topic, focus) have structural positions (cf. topicalization in English, right-edge focus in Russian, clause-initial focus in Welsh, preverbal focus ...
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