Semantics, Intonation, and Information Structure

The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Büring, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constituent order; Contrastive topic; Focus background; Grammar; Information structure; Intonation; Languages; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923842013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199247455.013.0015     Document Type: Chapter

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