Information structure and information theory von Ingo Reich | ISBN 9783985541102

Information structure and information theory

von Ingo Reich, herausgegeben von Robin Lemke und Lisa Schäfer
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Autor / AutorinIngo Reich
Herausgegeben vonRobin Lemke
Herausgegeben vonLisa Schäfer
Buchcover Information structure and information theory | Ingo Reich | EAN 9783985541102 | ISBN 3-98554-110-8 | ISBN 978-3-98554-110-2
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Information structure and information theory

von Ingo Reich, herausgegeben von Robin Lemke und Lisa Schäfer
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinIngo Reich
Herausgegeben vonRobin Lemke
Herausgegeben vonLisa Schäfer
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.