Information structure (IS) investigates the relationship between linguistic forms and mental referents of different utterances. Information structure, on one hand, is concerned with formal aspects of language and, on the other hand, it deals with functional aspects of language. This rather abstract approach, however, has received less attention comparing with tangible aspects of grammar such as morphology and syntax. Furthermore, those dealing with information structure were not consistent in terms of methodology and terminology that they employed. Accordingly, Prague School scholars employed “Functional Sentence Perspective” to refer to information structure. In the same vein, Halliday (2004) called it “Thematic Structure”; Chafe (1976) employed “Information Packaging”; and Vallduvi (1994) referred to this component of grammar as “Informatics”. Another issue to be dealt with in this study is “argument dislocation”. It is intended to investigate the effect of information structure on argument dislocation in Southern Kurdish. A dislocated structure is composed of two parts: detached part and propositional part. In propositional part, there is a pronoun which is co-referent with the dislocated noun phrase. Information structure may be among the key reasons why noun phrases are dislocated and appear as detached NPs in the left and right of sentences. In other words, for any NP, being topical or focal may alter the argument structure of any given clause. Lambrecht (1994: 188) used the term “topic” to refer to the dislocated NPs in the left side of the clause. He also referred to detached NPs in the right side of the clause as “anti- topic”.
Ahmadi, Sara, & Gowhari, Habib. (1398). The Role of Information Structure in Argument Dislocation (Based on data from Southern Kurdish). نشریه آزمایشی سیناوب, 6(2), 1-20. doi: 10.22034/fademo.2019.50335
MLA
Sara Ahmadi; Habib Gowhari. "The Role of Information Structure in Argument Dislocation (Based on data from Southern Kurdish)". نشریه آزمایشی سیناوب, 6, 2, 1398, 1-20. doi: 10.22034/fademo.2019.50335
HARVARD
Ahmadi, Sara, Gowhari, Habib. (1398). 'The Role of Information Structure in Argument Dislocation (Based on data from Southern Kurdish)', نشریه آزمایشی سیناوب, 6(2), pp. 1-20. doi: 10.22034/fademo.2019.50335
VANCOUVER
Ahmadi, Sara, Gowhari, Habib. The Role of Information Structure in Argument Dislocation (Based on data from Southern Kurdish). نشریه آزمایشی سیناوب, 1398; 6(2): 1-20. doi: 10.22034/fademo.2019.50335
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