PROPOSED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE INFORMATION STRUCTURE AND THE INTERFACES READING GROUP

SFU: Summer 2008

Every Second Friday, 11:30-1:00, RCB 9211

 

 

SCHEDULE:

Friday, June 20: Truckenbrodt  2007, BŸring  2007

Friday, July 4:  BŸring 2001a

Friday, July 18:  BŸring 2001b

Friday, July 25:  BŸring 2001b

September:  FŽry and Samek-Lodovici. 2006

September:  BŸring 2003

 

 

 

 

I.         INFORMATION STRUCTURE AND THE SYNTAX/SEMANTICS/PHONOLOGY INTERFACES

 

 (Some) Critical Background on Focus/Topic Semantics

1.         Rooth, Mats.  1992.  A theory of focus interpretation. Natural Language Semantics 1. 75-116.

 

2.         Schwarzschild, Roger. 1999. GIVENness, AvoidF and Other Constraints on the Placement of Accent. Natural Language Semantics 7. 141-177.

 

3.         BŸring, Daniel. 2003.  On D-Trees, Beans, and B-accents. Linguistics & Philosophy 26. 511-545.

 

 

Excellent Overview on the Semantics Side:

4.         BŸring, Daniel. 2007.  Semantics, Intonation and Information Structure. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces, ed. by Gillian Ramchad and Charles Reiss.  Oxford University Press. http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/GQ0YjgxM/buring.information.structure.v2005.pdf

 

 

Excellent Overview on the Prosody Side:

5.         Truckenbrodt, Hubert. (2007) The syntax-phonology interface. The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, Paul de Lacy (ed.), Cambridge: CUP, 435-456.

http://www2.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hubert/Home/papers/SPI.pdf

 

 

Critical Background on the Prosody Side:

6.         Selkirk, Elisabeth. 1995.  Sentence prosody: intonation, stress, and phrasing". In Goldsmith, John (ed.), The Handbook of Phonological Theory. Blackwell. 550-559.

 

 

Focus, Prosody and Syntax:  Some fairly recent interesting articles:

 

7.  BŸring, Daniel. 2001a.  "Let's Phrase It! -- Focus, Word Order, and Prosodic Phrasing in German Double Object Construction.": MŸller, G. & W. Sternefeld (eds) Competition in Syntax.  (Studies in Generative Grammar 49). Berlin & New York: de Gruyter. 69-105. http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/buring/locker/Let%27s_Phrase_It%21.pdf

 

8.  BŸring, Daniel. 2001b. "What Do Definites Do That Indefinites Definitely Don't?"In: FŽry, C. & W. Sternefeld (eds) Audiatur Vox Sapentiae - A Festschrift for Arnim von Stechow. (=studia grammatica 52). Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 70-100.  http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/buring/locker/definites.pdf

 

9.  FŽry, Caroline and Vieri Samek-Lodovici. 2006. Focus projection and prosodic prominence in nested foci. Language 82. 131-150.

 

 

 

II.  INFORMATION STRUCTURE AND CLEFT SENTENCES

 

Not Very Excellent, Non-formal Overview of some Aspects of Topic and Focus:

10.       Hedberg, Nancy. 2006.  Topic-Focus Controversies. In Valeria Molnar and Susanne Winkler (eds.), The Architecture of Focus. Mouton de Gruyter. http://www.sfu.ca/~hedberg/Hedberg_Lund_5_23_05.pdf.

 

Critical Background on Less-formal Approaches to Information Structure

11.       Gundel, Jeanette K. and Thorstein Fretheim.  2004. Topic and Focus.  In the Handbook of Pragmatic Theory. Laurence Horn and Gregory Ward (eds.), Blackwell. 174-196.

http://www.sfu.ca/~hedberg/gundel-fretheim.pdf

 

12.       Vallduvi, Enric and Maria Vilkuna. 1998. On rheme and kontrast. In Peter Culicover and Louise McNally, eds. The Limits of Syntax. Academic Press. 79-108.

 

Forthcoming Hedberg talk will be on deriving topic-marking clefts formally.

13.    Call-for-papers for Clefts Workshop, ZAS, Berlin, November 2008.

http://www.sfu.ca/~hedberg/Clefts_Workshop.html

 

Crucial Background article on Topic-Marking Reverse Pseudoclefts

14.       Heycock, Caroline and Anthony Kroch. 2002. Topic, Focus and Syntactic Representation.  WCCFL Proceedings. 

 

Background on Clefts of Different Types and Information Structure:

15.       Hedberg, Nancy and Lorna Fadden.  (2007). The Information Structure of It-clefts, Wh-clefts and Reverse Wh-clefts in English.  In Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski (eds.),The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface:  Essays in Honor of Jeanette K. Gundel. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pragmatics & Beyond New Series. Pp. 49-76.

http://www.sfu.ca/~hedberg/Clefts_paper17.pdf

 

The Ultimate Truth about the Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts, at least Focus-Marking ones:

16.       Han, Chung-hye and Nancy Hedberg (forthcoming).  Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts: a Tree-Adjoining Grammar Analysis. Journal of Semantics. http://www.sfu.ca/~hedberg/itcleft-js-edited.pdf

 

 

 

III.      PITCH (INTONATION) AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE

 

Crucial Background Article on Intonation and Meaning:

16.       Pierrehumbert, Janet and Julia Hirschberg 1990.  The meaning of intonational contours in th interpretation of discourse. In Cohen, Philip R., Jerry Morgan & Martha E. Pollack (eds.), Intentions in Communication. Cambridge: MIT Press. 271-311.

http://www.ling.northwestern.edu/~jbp/publications/meaning_intonation.pdf

 

Papers from the 2001 LSA Institute Workshop on Information Structure and Prosody:

17.       Hedberg, Nancy and Juan M. Sosa.  2007. The Prosody of Topic and Focus in Spontaneous English Dialogue. In Chungmin Lee, Mathew Gordon, and Daniel BŸring, (eds.), Topic and Focus: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and Intonation. Dordrecht:  Springer. 101-120.

http://www.sfu.ca/~hedberg/Corrected_5_5_03_Hed_Sosa.pdf

 

18.       Steedman, Mark. 2007. Information Structural Semantics for English Intonation.  In Chungmin Lee, Mathew Gordon, and Daniel BŸring, (eds.), Topic and Focus: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and Intonation. Dordrecht:  Springer.

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Truckenbrodt is Getting Involved:

19.       Truckenbrodt, Hubert. (to appear) Semantics of intonation.  Handbook of Semantics, eds. Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger and

Paul Portner. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

http://www2.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hubert/Home/papers/SOI.pdf