1. Information Structure in DPs The Syntax/Information Structure Interface in DPs: Internal Syntactic Properties and their Informational Correlates Anja Kleemann, MPhil in Linguistics

2. Research project comparison of English and German DPs internal structure of DPs information structure of DPs Correlation between information structural and internal structure syntax/information structure interface

3. What’s information structure? Formal properties of expressions cannot be fully understood without looking at the context in which they are used. information structure is a determining factor in the formal structuring of expressions

4. Domain of Inquiry: DPs Determiner phrases in naturally occurring conversations in English and German

5. What’s the Syntax/Semantics interface in DPs? Nur der gute Wein Der nur gute Wein

6. Methodology informant judgement technique –Questionnaire for native speakers of English and German analysis of English and German corpora  Findings in the corpora will be used as an inductive base upon which to find hypotheses about the syntax and function of DP-internal elements

7. Results so far Focus structure in sentences and DPs Focus particles in sentences and DPs Semantics of focus particle nur/only Next: Syntax of focus particle nur/only

8. Conclusions German nur … behaves differently in DPs has a scalar interpretation Overrides the scale of the scalar adjective associates with a scalar adjective without focal accent cannot be interpreted in terms of alternatives

9. Next steps in my project Development of information judgment tasks on the interpretation of nur in German Focus structure and Syntax of DPs Focus structure and argument structure in DPs Topic structure in DPs