Format:
1 online resource (352 pages)
ISBN:
9789027288561
Content:
This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present a particularly well-suited subject for the investigation of the modularity of grammar in general. The first part of the book deals with the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of focus particle constructions and results in a modular account of the relation between their word order, information structure, and meaning. The second part presents a corpus study and several speech production and perception experiments investigating the prosodic realization of the constructions. The integration of these two lines of research results in a comprehensive theory of focus particles and of the interaction of grammar and information structure in German.
Content:
Focus Particles in German -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and notational conventions -- Introduction -- 1.1. Scope and goals -- 1.2. Organization of this study -- Theoretical background -- 2.1. Focus particles -- 2.2. Syntax -- 2.3. Information structure -- 2.4. Prosody -- 2.5. Summary -- The semantics of focus particles -- 3.1. Overview -- 3.2. Compositional semantics: Association with focus -- 3.2.1. Syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic theories -- 3.2.2. John only introduced Bill to Sue: Alternative Semantics and Structured Meanings -- 3.2.3. The restriction of the alternatives -- 3.2.4. Assertions, presuppositions, implicatures -- 3.3. Lexical semantics: Subgroups of focus particles -- 3.3.1. The traditional classification -- 3.3.2. A cross-classification of focus particles -- 3.4. Summary -- Focus particles, syntax, and information structure -- 4.1. Focus particles in German: A descriptive survey -- 4.1.1. Positions of focus particles and their domains -- 4.1.2. The location of the sentence accent -- 4.1.3. Contrastive uses of focus particles -- 4.2. Syntactic analyses of focus particle constructions -- 4.2.1. Focus particles as adverbials -- 4.2.2. Focus particles as crosscategorial operators -- 4.2.3. The role of information structure -- 4.2.4. Summary -- 4.3. An alternative proposal -- 4.4. Focus particles as adjuncts to VP and AP -- 4.4.1. The syntactic status and the position of focus particles -- 4.4.2. Association with the sentence focus -- 4.4.3. Movement of (parts of) a focus particle's domain -- 4.4.4. An argument against adjunction to the root CP -- 4.4.5. Focus particles as adjuncts to AP -- 4.4.6. Summary -- 4.5. Stressed additive focus particles -- 4.5.1. Previous analyses -- 4.5.2. A movement account of stressed auch.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027255341
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789027255341
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=623356
