E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten
Büring The Meaning of Topic and Focus
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-134-70206-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
The 59th Street Bridge Accent
E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
ISBN: 978-1-134-70206-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German and English, and centred on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation contour, a semantic interpretation for two different pitch accents - Focus and Topic - is developed. The cross-sentence, as well as the sentence internal semantic effects of these accents, follow from the given treatment. The account is based on Montogovian possible world semantics and Chomskian generative syntax.