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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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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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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