Information Theory and Ellipsis Redundancy (B03)

• Subject Area: Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: since 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 232722074

The overarching goal of B3 is to investigate to what extent the actual choice of speakers between elliptical and full forms is determined by (uniform) information density. Having established and confirmed the strategies »Avoid Peaks!« and »Avoid troughs!« with respect to fragments (phase I) and constituent ellipsis (phase II), phase III focuses on ellipsis in coordination. Since the processing of coordination requires dynamically updating the common ground, coordination ellipsis allows us to observe the information in flux at the interface of information structure and prosody and its impact on UID and ellipsis.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1102: Information Density and Linguistic Encoding
• Applicant Institution: Universität des Saarlandes
• Project Heads: Dr. Heiner Drenhaus; Dr. Robin Lemke; Professor Dr. Ingo Reich