Mike Aubrey December 6, 2008 Information Structure, Linguistics

Discourse and Information Structure

I’m came across an interesting powerpoint on Discourse Structure and Information Structure, if anyone’s interested:

Its not completely self-explanatory, but does have some helpful information. And powerpoints tend to provide simplified information. If you come across things you don’t understand, google them or something.

At the very least, I found it interesting…

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srunge on December 7, 2008 at 7:28 am
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After reading through about half of the slides, I would encourage you to suck it up and *read Lambrecht*. I will send my notes to tease you. LFG strikes me as forced and overly reliant on configurational languages, e.g. dividing syntax from intonation. The latter would only be a hypothetical construct in Greek. I think that there is a UND-SIL MA on Russian information structure that uses Lambrecht. I grabbed it, but have not read it yet. I will look on Monday.

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Mike Aubrey on December 7, 2008 at 12:41 pm
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I will, I will read it!

I found the MA thesis:

Click to access 2001Rodionova.PDF

Personally, though I’m quite cynical about how possible it is to reconstruct Greek intonation.

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