Table 10 Examples of different types of information structure.

From: The principle of anticipation in language use

Example number

Example (structural type)

Anticipation; Markers; Information structure type

(11)

Any help you can give me on verifying those numbers will certainly help. (Multi-clausal sentence)

Pro-anticipation; certainly; Subject–predicate (Degen et al., 2019)

(12)

It is unlikely that local customers will think to find your business on Tumblr. (Multi-clausal sentence)

Pro-anticipation; unlikely; Topic-Comment (Willer, 2015)

(13)

Just pick me up in a car, not a bike. (Mono-clausal sentence)

Counter-Anticipation; No markers; (Contrastive) Focus

  1. We introduce the type of information structure in the right column in order to trace which example offers evidence for which structure.
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