Discourse-oriented syntax / / edited by Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl, Andreas Trotzke

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822846003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-272-6772-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Collana: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, , 0166-0829 ; ; 226
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Discourse analysis; Generative grammar
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Discourse-oriented Syntax; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Issues in discourse-oriented syntax; 1. Issues at the syntax-discourse interface; 2. The contributions; References; The derivation and interpretation of left peripheral discourse particles; 1. Introduction; 2. The derivation of left peripheral particles; 2.1 Left peripheral particles and syntactic constituency; 2.2 Left peripheral particles and generalized transformations; 2.3 Stacked left peripheral particles; 3. Left peripheral particles and emphasis; 3.1 The notion of emphasis for intensity; 3.2 Emphasis for intensity in the left periphery3.3 Emphasis for intensity and left peripheral particles; 4. Conclusion and outlook; References; On the interpretation of modal particles in non-assertive speech acts in German and Bellunese; 1. Introduction; 2. Bellunese particles and their German correspondents; 2.1 Particles deriving from pronouns; 2.1.1 Lu; 2.1.2 Ti; 2.2 Particles deriving from adverbs; 2.2.1 Mo; 2.2.2 Po; 2.3 On the interaction between particles and wh-movement; 2.4 Interim summary; 3. Interpretation of the basic facts; 1. Introduction2. On verb-based particles; 3. Italian sentence-final particles occur in the IP layer; 3.1 Adverb-based particles; 3.2 Verb-based particles; 4. Sentence-initial particles; 4.1 Semantic contribution; ; 4.2 Clause types; 4.3 Agreement patterns.; 4.4 Ordering restrictions; 4.5 The discourse particle dai; 4.6 Interim conclusions; 5. Cross-linguistic evidence; 5.1 The distribution; 5.2 The analysis; 5.3 Particles and vocatives; 5.4 The refinement of the analysis; 6. Back to Italian: The interaction of discourse particles and vocatives; 7. Conclusions; References; Italian adverbs and discourse particles1. Discourse particles as functional heads; 1.1 Complementizers and wh-pronouns; 1.2 The pa/po particle in varieties of the Trentino - Alto Adige; 2. Discourse particles as weak adverbs; 2.1 The strong-weak pronoun opposition; 2.2 Italian poi 'then'; 3. The (scopal) ambiguity of adverbs and particles.; 3.1 Three short case studies; 3.2 Conclusions; References; Is particle a (unified) category?; 1. Introduction; 2. The modal particles: Core properties; 3. Particles as grammatical markers in the left periphery; 4. Particles as verbal bases: Tha and as; 4.1 Verbal bases and modality