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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Architectures and Information Structure Inventory | |
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| Inventory: topics | |
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| Danish topicalization | |
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| Catalan: Links and Tails | |
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| Topics and truth values | |
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| Stage topics | |
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| Permanently available topics | |
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| Topic tests | |
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| Multiple topics | |
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| Topic drop | |
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| Scope and topic properties | |
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| Inventory: foci | |
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| Semantic definitions | |
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| Marking foci by stress | |
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| Deriving foci from stress | |
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| Deriving stress from syntax | |
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| Deriving syntax from IS | |
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| Deriving focus pragmatically | |
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| Summing up focus properties | |
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| Putting it all together: f(ocus)-structure | |
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| Topic-focus interactions | |
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| Notation | |
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| Contrastive and restrictive topics and foci | |
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| Indefinite topics | |
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| Some answers | |
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| IS architecture | |
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| Stylistic components | |
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| [Sigma]-structure | |
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| IS at PF | |
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| Functional features | |
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| Lexical features | |
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| Multiply-dimensional architectures | |
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| Functionalism | |
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| Functionalism vs. formalism | |
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| Functionalist methodology | |
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| Configurations | |
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| Configurational languages | |
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| The left periphery | |
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| Cartography | |
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| An even finer structure of the left periphery | |
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| The importance of information structure | |
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| Distinguishing topicalization from left dislocation in English | |
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| Focus preposing and Yiddish movement in English | |
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| When the left-peripheral element does not have information-structural impact | |
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| Fronting non-topics | |
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| Focusing the subject: existentials | |
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| Clefts: syntactic mapping of information structure | |
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| Other strategies for marking subjects as non-topics | |
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| Left-peripheral prospects | |
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| Scrambling | |
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| Scrambling in Russian | |
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| Syntactic topic and focus features and Russian word order | |
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| Scrambling in Japanese | |
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| Dutch scrambling | |
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| Scrambling in Persian | |
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| Scandinavian object shift | |
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| Concluding remarks on word order | |
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| Information Structure Constraints | |
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| Identification | |
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| Argument identification, a constraint on topicalization | |
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| Identification of IS functions | |
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| IS constraints on syntax | |
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| I(dentificational)- dependencies | |
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| Canonical f-structures | |
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| The constraint on I-dependencies | |
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| Wh-topics | |
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| Topic-islands | |
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| That-t effects | |
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| Superiority | |
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| Superiority in other languages | |
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| Superiority in Hebrew | |
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| Superiority in German | |
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| Superiority in Danish | |
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| IS constraints on complex NP | |
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| Extraposition from NP | |
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| Extraction from NP | |
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| Processing | |
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| Architectural consequences | |
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| Aspectual Focus | |
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| The theory of atoms | |
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| Aspectual focus | |
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| Meaning components and extraction | |
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| Manner-of-speaking verbs | |
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| Picture NPs | |
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| Datives | |
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| Missing objects | |
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| Missing objects in "Activities" | |
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| Object omission in habituals | |
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| Contextual binding of lexical constituents | |
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| The Division of Labor between Syntax and IS | |
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| References | |
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| Index of terms | |
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| Language Index | |
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| Index of authors | |