This paper studies the realization method of information structure in Chinese.
I analize the previous approaches about inforamation structure and find that there are many problems.
I suggest Vallduvi's Trinomial Hierarchical Articulation(THA).
Sentenc...
This paper studies the realization method of information structure in Chinese.
I analize the previous approaches about inforamation structure and find that there are many problems.
I suggest Vallduvi's Trinomial Hierarchical Articulation(THA).
Sentences with the same syntactic structure may have different information structures. Vallduvi divides the sentence into three parts: link, focus and tail, which he also calls Trinomial Hierarchical Articulation(THA).
SENTENCE = {FOCUS, GROUND}
GROUND = {LINK, TAIL}
According to his THA theory, the information structures of sentences include:
(1) LINK, FOCUS
(2) FOCUS
(3) LINK, FOCUS, TAIL
(4) FOCUS, TAIL
I classify four types of information structure and study the realization method of informarion structure.