Discourse and Information Structure

Abstract

In addition to deciding what to say, speakers must decide how tosay it. The central premise of studies on the relationship between syntax and discourse function is that a speaker's use of a particular structural option is constrained by specific aspects of the context of utterance. Work in discourse has uncovered a variety of specific discourse functions served by individual syntactic constructions. More recently, in Birner & Ward 1998 we examine generalizations that apply across constructions, identifying ways in which a given functional principle is variously realized in similar but distinct constructions.

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