Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 339 g
The 59th Street Bridge Accent
Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 339 g
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
ISBN: 978-1-138-98065-5
Verlag: Routledge
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.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1 Basic Assumptions; Chapter 2 Focus and Discourse; Chapter 3 The 59th Street Bridge Accent; Chapter 4 Quantifiers as S-Topics; Chapter 5 The Great Scope Inversion Conspiracy; Chapter 6 The Universal Disambiguator; Chapter 7 Summary;
