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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823240503321

Titolo

Parentheticals / / edited by Nicole Dehe and Yordanka Kavalova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007

ISBN

1-282-15264-5

9786612152641

90-272-9199-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xi, 314 p

Collana

Linguistik aktuell = linguistics today ; ; v. 106

Altri autori (Persone)

DeheNicole

KavalovaYordanka

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Parenthetical constructions

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Parentheticals -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Parentheticals -- Syntax and its interfaces -- Spoken parenthetical clauses in English -- Integrated parentheticals and assertional complements * -- The complement of reduced parentheticals* -- Long extraction or parenthetical insertion? Evidence from judgement studies -- And-parenthetical clauses* -- On the syntax and semantics of appositive relative clauses* -- Invisible constituents?: Parentheses as B-merged adverbial phrases -- Semantics/Pragmatics and their interfaces -- Reduced parenthetical clauses in Romance languages - -- Prosody and its interfaces -- The relation between syntactic and prosodic parenthesis* -- Quieter, faster, lower, and set off by pauses? -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Sommario/riassunto

Parentheticals are a fascinating way of interrupting spoken and written utterances. This paper focuses on prosodic aspects of the analysis of such constructions in contemporary German. The investigation starts with a discussion of the prosodic features relevant to the study of parentheticals such as discussed in previous literature - intensity, articulation rate, fundamental frequency, pauses, and intonation



contours - and, drawing on these features, goes on to discuss data from recent parliamentary debates. The results show that future prosodic studies should focus on the transition zone between the part of the anchor clause preceding the parenthetical construction, and the parenthetical construction itself.