Format:
291 Seiten
,
Diagramme
ISBN:
9789027201669
Series Statement:
Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today Volume 249
Content:
"The polarity of a sentence is crucial for its meaning. It is thus hardly surprising that languages have developed devices to highlight this meaning component and to contrast statements with negative and positive polarity in discourse. Research on this issue has started from languages like German and Dutch, where prosody and assertive particles are systematically associated with polarity contrast. Recently, the grammatical realization of polarity contrast has been at the center of investigations in a range of other languages as well. Core questions concern the formal repertoire and the exact meaning contribution of the relevant devices, the kind of contrast they evoke, and their relation to information structure and sentence mood. This volume brings together researchers from a theoretical, an empirical, and a typological orientation and enhances our understanding of polarity with the help of in-depth analyses and cross-linguistic comparisons dealing with the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and/or prosodic aspects of the phenomenon"--
Content:
The grammatical realization of polarity contrast: introductory remarks / Christine Dimroth and Stefan Sudhoff -- From polarity focus to salient polarity: from things to processes / Dejan Matic and Irina Nikolaeva -- Verum focus, sentence mood, and contrast / Horst Lohnstein -- Complementizers and negative polarity in German hypothetical comparatives / Julia Bacskai-Atkari -- Veridicality and sets of alternative worlds: on embedded interrogatives and the complementizers that and if / Peter Öhl -- Biased declarative questions in Swedish and German: negation meets modal particles (.äl and doch wohl) / Heiko Seeliger -- Types of polar interrogatives in Hungarian and their interaction with inside and outside negation / Beáta Gyuris -- Kinds of verum distinguished by aspect choice in Russian / Olav Mueller-Reichau -- Polarity focus and non-canonical syntax in Italian, French and Spanish: clitic left dislocation and sì che/ sí que-constructions / Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob -- In search for polarity contrast marking in Italian: a contribution from echo replies / Cecilia Andorno and Claudia Crocco
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027263384
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Polarität
;
Satzsemantik
;
Konjunktion
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Dimroth, Christine 1967-
Author information:
Sudhoff, Stefan 1977-
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