On the place of information structure in a grammar
Robert D. Van Valin · 2009
The question, ‘where does information structure fit in the structure of a grammar’ is an architectural question, and different grammar architectures give different answers. In this paper I will give one possible answer, based on Role and Reference Grammar [RRG] (Van Valin 2005, Mairal et al. 2012), a monostratal (non-derivational) linking theory. In RRG there is a direct linking between the semantic representation of a sentence and its syntactic representation, and information structure plays a role in this linking. The steps in the linking algorithm mapping semantics into syntax will be specified, and it will be shown how information structure notions can play a role in them.