Information Structure (definition)

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

• Topic (definition)
• Focus (definition)
• Pragmatics (definition)

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.