Information Structure in Subordinate and Subordinate-Like Clauses

Abstract

While information structure has traditionally been viewed as a single partition of information within an utterance, there are opposing views that identify multiple such partitions in an utterance. The existence of alternative proposals raises questions about the notion of information structure and also its relation to discourse structure. Exploring various linguistic aspects, this paper supports the traditional view by arguing that there is no information structure partition within a subordinate clause.