Information structure

[@excitedaboutlearning1639]

At 17:45, I would say I prefer A, but it's certainly more difficult to process. A few years ago, I had a lot of trouble understanding complex passive sentences like the one in the video, but then I came across Noam Chomsky's transformations from active to passive sentences and vice versa and started transforming them automatically like that in my mind, and now, I don't even consciously transform anything, but I still understand the sentence just fine.

[@FR_N-do4xi]

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[@wolfinthesuit]

There's really few lectures about linguistics in yt generally but this one is helpful

[@yingyusu3529]

I love your teaching style! Thank you

[@MartinHilpert]

Thanks for watching!

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[@suriaisyah9449]

This video is so helpful. Thank you!!

[@TheAgoDuarte]

Hello. I would like to thank you for sharing with us this video.

[@MahaMaha-ol9bd]

Many thanks for your interesting E-lecture

[@MrJohnnywonny]

Very clear presentation. Thanks.

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[@Najah313J]

thanks a million.

[@ShkarAhmed]

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[@FR_N-do4xi]

source?

[@MartinHilpert]

Hilpert, Martin. 2021. Information structure. In Bas Aarts, April MacMahon, and Lars Hinrichs (eds.), Handbook of English Linguistics. New York: Wiley, 229-248.

[@FR_N-do4xi]

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[@deadman746]

Linguistic pragmatism rules OK.