Information structure and information theory

Robin Lemke · Lisa Schäfer · Ingo Reich

Sep 2024 · Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface Book 10 · Language Science Press

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This volume results from the workshop "Discourse obligates – How and why discourse limits the way we express what we express" at the 44th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society in Tübingen, Germany. The workshop brought - and this book brings - together information-structural and information-theoretic perspectives on optional variation between linguistic encodings. Previously, linguistic phenomena like linearization, the choice between syntactic constructions or the distribution of ellipsis have been investigated from an information-structural or information-theoretic perspective, but the relationship between these approaches remains underexplored.

The goal of this book is to look more in detail into how information structure and information theory contribute to explaining linguistic variation, to what extent they explain different encoding choices and whether they interact in doing so. Using experimental and corpus-based methods, the contributions investigate this on different languages, historical stages and levels of linguistic analysis.

About the author

Robin Lemke is currently a postdoc at Saarland University, working in the areas of psycholinguistics, syntax and pragmatics. He received his PhD from Saarland University in 2021. His research focuses mostly on how syntactic constraints, processing mechanisms and pragmatic reasoning constrain the form and usage of elliptical expressions

Lisa Schäfer is a research associate at the Department of German Studies at Saarland University. She currently uses experimental methods to investigate the grammar and usage of ellipsis as well as the comprehension of the generic masculine.

Ingo Reich is Full Professor for German Linguistics at Saarland University. His current research focuses on the grammar and use of complex sentences, ellipsis and Easy-to-Read German.

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