Information structure in Turkish: The word order-prosody interface

Lingua

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1025-1053

  Işsever, Selç ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Definiteness; Focus; Information structure; Prosody; Specificity; Tail; Topic; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037660614     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(03)00012-3     Document Type: Article

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