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  • 12 - Information Structure and Argument Linking

  • from Part Two - Topics in RRG: Simple Sentences
  • Edited by Delia Bentley, University of Manchester, Ricardo Mairal Usón, Universidad National de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Wataru Nakamura, Tohoku University, Japan, Robert D. Van Valin, Jr, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar
    Published online:
    08 June 2023
    Print publication:
    22 June 2023, pp 488-522

  • Summary

    The RRG approach to information structure (IS) was laid out by Bentley (Chapter 11), and the linking between syntax and semantics was explicated by Van Valin (Chapter 1), Watters (Chapter 6), Guerrero (Chapter 14) and Paris (Chapter 15). These discussions did not emphasize the role of IS in linking, and it is to this topic that we turn in this chapter. We begin by presenting the representation of IS in the layered structure of the clause, and then we show how context can be represented using a version of Discourse Representation Theory and the different focus types derived from these representations. The next section illustrates the importance of IS for the analysis of grammatical phenomena, and this is followed by an analysis of conjunction reduction, which presented problems for an RRG analysis in purely syntactic terms. Finally, the interaction of IS and the linking algorithm will be explored, showing that IS interacts with it in important ways.