This book reconsiders the linguistic notion of emphasis. For many, the concept of emphasis
is confined to information structure. However, our understanding of the grammatical reflexes …

Using data from interviews with high school students, I first adduce evidence that lends
support to Schourup's (1985) claim that the United States English adolescent hedge like is a …

This volume provides a detailed account of the syntax of expressive language, that is,
utterances that express, rather than describe, the emotions and attitudes of the speaker …

For many linguists interested in pragmatics, including the Prague School theorists, Halliday
(1967), and Vallduví (1992, 1993), information structure is a sentence-level structure. It is …

We argue that prominence is a structure-building principle throughout the grammar of
languages, and in particular for building discourse representations. We provide an explicit …

The realization of information structural units has been intriguing as information packaging
has reflections in the semantic, pragmatic, syntactic and prosodic domains. This book …

This book considers the connection between information structure and syntax, exploring
formal explanations to account for the distribution of discourse-based phenomena such as …

This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress,
phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis …

My goal in this chapter is to compare two functionalist theories of indexical reference in
discourse in terms of topichood, seeking to critically evaluate each both in its own terms and …

Languages in general use a variety of ways to encode given and new information in the
grammar. A language like English often uses phonological means like stress. Writing …