Difference between revisions of "Information Structure (definition)"
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| + | Information Structure concerns the way in which pragmatic information, (such as what information is new, what information is old, what information is important, etc.) is packaged into a sentence. Gaelic makes frequent use of [[Cleft (definition)]] constructions to mark information structure. | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
| + | *[[Topic (definition)]] | ||
| + | *[[Focus (definition)]] | ||
| + | *[[Pragmatics (definition)]] | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
| + | The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful! | ||
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic-comment | *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic-comment | ||
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(linguistics) | *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(linguistics) | ||
| + | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_structure | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 03:52, 11 June 2012
Information Structure concerns the way in which pragmatic information, (such as what information is new, what information is old, what information is important, etc.) is packaged into a sentence. Gaelic makes frequent use of Cleft (definition) constructions to mark information structure.
See Also
External Links
The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_structure
References
- Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
