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
External Links
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic-comment
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(linguistics)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_structure
References
- Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
