Prominence and information structure (C01)

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This project aims at gaining a better understanding of the relation between prominence and information structure, investigating in a multidimensional approach syntactic and semantic/pragmatic prominence-lending features. First, we study prominent syntactic positions (left and right periphery, clefts, postverbal subject position) in spontaneous dialogue data from various languages, and analyse their role as structural attractors for information-structural units. Second, we study the competition among prominent entities for topic status based on an annotation task and an elicitation experiment, in order to carve out the role of prominence-lending semantic features of subcategorised arguments.