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information structure: a standalone construct

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Syntax

the way sentence form packages content according to speakers' assumptions about the hearer's knowledge, through categories such as topic, focus and identifiability.

In syntax, information structure refers to the way sentence form packages content according to speakers' assumptions about the hearer's knowledge, through categories such as topic, focus and identifiability. This meaning comes from Lambrecht (1994) in Information Structure and Sentence Form.[1]

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Bayesian persuasion1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct focus4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs form4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Lambrecht, K. (1994). Information Structure and Sentence Form. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511620607

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