Two visual ERP experiments were conducted to investigate topic and contrast assigned by
various cues such as discourse context, sentential position, and marker during referential …

Intervention effects, triggered by the presence of an intervener c-commanding a Wh-phrase,
are known to be weaker in why questions in Japanese and Korean. The existing analyses of …

This book considers the connection between information structure and syntax, exploring
formal explanations to account for the distribution of discourse-based phenomena such as …

Contrastive topics and non-contrastive topics in Japanese generally receive separate
treatments in the literature: although they are both marked by the particle wa, the former …

This dissertation focuses on definite/indefinite markings and the occurrence of nominal
phrases that are projected by a determiner head, such as articles and demonstratives, in …

The Japanese particle wa is widely considered a marker for topic. Concentrating on the
behaviour of contrastive topics in Japanese, this paper presents arguments that challenge …

The most recent trend in the studies of LF intervention effects makes crucial reference to
focusing effects on the interveners, and this paper critically examines the representative …

The interpretation of a variety of different linguistic expressions show sensitivity to
phonological prominence, among them quantificational adverbs, determiner quantifiers …

Abstract This thesis investigates Information Structure (IS) in relation to the clausal
architecture in Standard Arabic (SA). The attention is confined to word order variation and its …