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Information structure and sentence form

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Information structure and sentence form: Topic, focus, and the mental representations of discourse referents. By Lambrecht Knud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 388 pp.

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Maria Polinsky
Maria Polinsky*
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University of California at San Diego
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Dept. of Linguistics, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0108 [polinsky@ling.ucsd.edu]
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Language , Volume 75 , Issue 3 , September 1999 , pp. 567 - 582
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