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date: 27 January 2021

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This chapter examines the role of information structure in constructionist approaches. It evaluates the central notions of information structure and how these factors can be incorporated into a Construction Grammar view of mental grammar. The chapter explains that information structure is an important element of sentence grammar because it influences by which construction a particular meaning is expressed and why speakers therefore choose one construction over alternative ones in specific situations

Keywords: information structure, constructionist approaches, Construction Grammar, mental grammar, sentence grammar, meaning

Jaakko Leino

Jaakko Leino is Professor of Finnish at the University of Helsinki. He has worked as coordinator of the Finnish graduate school for language studies, Langnet, as Professor of Finnish at the University of Jyväskylä and at the Åbo Akademi University, as Lecturer of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki, and as researcher at the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland. He has published on Finnish historical syntax, cognitive dimensions of the Construction Grammar framework, diachrony and variation in Construction Grammar, nonfinite constructions, word order, analytical causatives, and the syntax of spoken language, Finnish dialect syntax in particular.

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