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Questionnaire on information structure (OUIS): reference manual

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
1 Information Structure
2 Grammatical Correlates of Information Structure
3 Structure of the Questionnaire
4 Experimental Tasks
5 Technicalities
6 Archiving
7 Acknowledgments

Chapter 2. General Questions
1 General Information
2 Phonology
3 Morphology and Syntax

Chapter 3. Experimental tasks
1 Changes (Given/New in Intransitives and Transitives)
2 Giving (Given/New in Ditransitives)
3 Visibility (Given/New, Animacy and Type/Token Reference)
4 Locations (Given/New in Locative Expressions)
5 Sequences (Given/New/Contrast in Transitives)
6 Dynamic Localization (Given/New in Dynamic Loc. Descriptions)
7 Birthday Party (Weight and Discourse Status)
8 Static Localization (Macro-Planning and Given/New in Locatives)
9 Guiding (Presentational Utterances)
10 Event Cards (All New)
11 Anima (Focus types and Animacy)
12 Contrast (Contrast in pairing events)
13 Animal Game (Broad/Narrow Focus in NP)
14 Properties (Focus on Property and Possessor)
15 Eventives (Thetic and Categorical Utterances)
16 Tell a Story (Contrast in Text)
17 Focus Cards (Selective, Restrictive, Additive, Rejective Focus)
18 Who does What (Answers to Multiple Constituent Questions)
19 Fairy Tale (Topic and Focus in Coherent Discourse)
20 Map Task (Contrastive and Selective Focus in Spontaneous Dialogue)
21 Drama (Contrastive Focus in Argumentation)
22 Events in Places (Spatial, Temporal and Complex Topics)
23 Path Descriptions (Topic Change in Narrative)
24 Groups (Partial Topic)
25 Connections (Bridging Topic)
26 Indirect (Implicational Topic)
27 Surprises (Subject-Topic Interrelation)
28 Doing (Action Given, Action Topic)
29 Influences (Question Priming)

Chapter 4. Translation tasks
1 Basic Intonational Properties
2 Focus Translation
3 Topic Translation
4 Quantifiers

Chapter 5. Information structure summary survey
1 Preliminaries
2 Syntax
3 Morphology
4 Prosody
5 Summary: Information structure

Chapter 6. Performance of Experimental Tasks in the Field
1 Field sessions
2 Field Session Metadata
3 Informants’ Agreement

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:1241
Date January 2006
CreatorsSkopeteas, Stavros, Fiedler, Ines, Hellmuth, Sam, Schwarz, Anne, Stoel, Ruben, Fanselow, Gisbert, Féry, Caroline, Krifka, Manfred
PublisherUniversität Potsdam, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Extern. Extern
Source SetsPotsdam University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightshttp://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php

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