Focus particles in German : syntax, prosody, and information structure / / Stefan Sudhoff

• Autore: Sudhoff Stefan <1977->
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 2010; ©2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 335 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 435/.7
• Soggetto topico: German language - Particles; German language - Syntax; Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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. ; 4.5.3. Arguments against a movement account -- 4.5.4. Summary -- 4.6. Focus particles as adjuncts to XP -- 4.6.1. Adjunction to DP, PP, and CP -- 4.6.2. Arguments against adjunction to XP -- 4.6.3. Adjunction to XP and information structure -- 4.6.4. Summary -- 4.7. Summary -- The scope of focus particles -- 5.1. Syntactic restrictions on the scope of focus particles -- 5.2. Relative scope of focus particles and other scope-bearing elements -- 5.2.1. Negation -- 5.2.2. DPs and adverbials -- 5.2.3. Multiple focus particles -- 5.3. The (no) reconstruction argument against adjunction to XP -- 5.4. Summary and consequences -- The prosody of sentences with stressed additive focus particles -- 6.1. Starting points and first observations -- 6.2. Corpus study -- 6.2.1. The corpus -- 6.2.2. Syntactic description of the corpus material -- 6.2.3. Intonational analysis -- 6.2.4. Discussion -- 6.3. Experimental pilot study -- 6.3.1. Hypotheses -- 6.3.2. Experiment 1: Speech production -- 6.3.3. Experiment 2: Speech perception -- 6.3.4. General discussion -- 6.4. Experiment 3: Stressed auch in speech production -- 6.4.1. Hypotheses -- 6.4.2. Data elicitation -- 6.4.3. Data analysis -- 6.4.4. Qualitative results -- 6.4.5. Quantitative results -- 6.4.6. Discussion -- 6.5. Experiment 4: The perception of utterances containing stressed auch (1) -- 6.5.1. Hypotheses -- 6.5.2. Method -- 6.5.3. Results and discussion -- 6.6. Experiment 5: The perception of utterances containing stressed auch (2) -- 6.6.1. Hypotheses -- 6.6.2. Method -- 6.6.3. Results and discussion -- 6.7. General discussion and summary -- Focus particles and contrast -- 7.1. Focus particles, the focus-background partition, and contrast -- 7.2. Prosodic correlates of contrastive focus -- 7.3. Experiment 6: Focus particles and contrast in speech production -- 7.3.1. Experimental conditions and hypotheses. ; 7.3.2. Data elicitation -- 7.3.3. Data analysis -- 7.3.4. Results: Control conditions -- 7.3.5. Results: Conditions with focus particles -- 7.3.6. Discussion -- 7.4. Experiment 7: Contrast in speech perception -- 7.4.1. Hypotheses -- 7.4.2. Method -- 7.4.3. Results and discussion -- 7.5. General discussion and summary -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- a.1. Sources of the spoken language corpus analyzed in Section 6.2 -- a.2. Materials of Experiment 1 -- a.2.1. Critical items -- a.2.2. Filler items -- a.3. Materials of Experiment 2 -- a.4. Materials of Experiment 3 -- a.4.1. Critical items -- a.4.2. Filler items -- a.5. Materials of Experiment 4 -- a.6. Materials of Experiment 6 -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Focus particles in German
• ISBN: 9786612558733; 9781282558731; 1282558730; 9789027288561; 9027288569
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910139648703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II