Information structure and the organization of oral texts have been rarely studied crosslinguistically. This book contains studies of the grammatical organizatio

Information structure and the organization of oral texts have been rarely studied crosslinguistically. This book contains studies of the grammatical organizatio

Information structure is a relatively new field to linguistics and has only recently been studied for smaller and less described languages. This book is the fir

What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-

The authors of this book share a common interest in the following topics: the importance of corpora compilation for the empirical study of human language; the i