Optimizing structure in context: scrambling and information structure

Abstract Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Phrase structure and configurationality 3. Specificity, focus, and information structure 4. Optimality theory and scrambling in German 5. Order and morphology: Korean 6. Conclusion.

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